There have been articles lately purporting anxiety & depression may be impacting HIV viral suppression. I'm not posting links to these for 2 reasons; none of them were clear of what they were actually discussing & nor were they clear on causality or correlation.
Meaning, none of these pieces were clear on what was causing what. Is there a relationship between anxiety & suppression? Is there non-adherence or is the mental state affecting the body to the point of suppression interference?
Another point, many doctors & researchers treat anxiety, stress & depression as merely mental issues. Any of them can be mental health diagnoses. However, sometimes life is & continues to be stressful, depressing & anxiety ridden. Not all anxiety or depression is due to a mental disorder. Many meds can induce anxiety or other factors like sleep interference or emotional reactions.
Until definitions are clear & direction of correlation or causality is shown, this research is at best a discussion point. Putting abstracts out like these does no good. It supports a hunch & may put further stress on patients trying to maintain suppression. IMO, unless there is more not shown in these articles, these should not have been published at this time. At this point, they came across as jargon supported conjecture.
Take care.
PS - we had 7" of rain in 24+ hours. We passed our average & made up for October.
Cya...
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