The actions that we take regarding a particular situation largely depend on how we relate to this. For example, if someone believes that living with HIV/AIDS is like running to the darkness to the edge of the abyss, not knowing when you reach a cliff, then this person will feel that he is not able to control the situation and, accordingly, will not be able to take any measures to help himself. Thoughts that guide us largely determine what is happening to us, and how we solve the problems associated with our health.
The most successful in managing their condition are those who consider their illness as a path, and not as an abyss. The path, like any path, is full of descents and lifting. Sometimes it is even and light. Sometimes it’s hard to walk along it. To overcome this road, you may need to use many strategies: (sometimes you can go fast, sometimes it is simply necessary to slow down a step). Those people who have acquired skills to help overcome this path effectively manage their condition.
Recommendations for managing your condition:
- Caring for your illness(visiting a doctor and taking drugs).
- Continuation of ordinary life(work, household chores and household care, social activity, etc.).
- Management of your new emotional state(Work with changes brought by the disease, such as: uncertainty in the future, anger, irritability, change in expectations and goals, depressive states, as well as work with changes in relations with friends and relatives).
How to learn to manage your condition
Like any skill, managing your condition should be learned. The main thing is to remember that onlyYouYou control the situation and are able to change it. As any manager, you should have a plan of your actions:
- Determine the goal you want to achieve.
- Determine the ways to achieve the goal.
- Make a phased action plan to achieve the goal.
- Perform the planned action plan.
- Evaluate the results.
- Make changes as necessary.
- Encourage yourself.
Definition of the goal you want to achieve
The decision to set your own goals may be the most difficult part of the plan. In this matter you need to be realistic and quite specific. Think about everything you want to do. At this stage, perhaps the occurrence of doubts about achieving the desired results, as it may seem that the goals are inaccessible, and are more like a dream. You should not concentrate your attention on this, but it is better to fix on paper everything that you would like to achieve, and highlight what you want to achieve in the first place.
Definition of ways to achieve the goal
There are always several ways to achieve the main goal. The main thing at this stage is to analyze all the options and choose one or more, which are most satisfied with you. Sometimes, it is difficult to decide on the choice of these options, but if problems arise here, you can seek help from consultants, share your plans with family members, friends, and medical workers. It is necessary to consider all options to achieve the result and not make hasty conclusions that they are non -condensed.
Drawing up a phased action plan to achieve the goal
The next step is to turn the stages of achieving the goal into short -term plans called the action plan. The action plan calls for a specific action or a number of actions that should lead to the achievement of the main goal, it should consist of specific events. After all, you do not draw up a plan in order to please friends, family members or your doctor, you must please yourself in order to make life comfortable.
The ability to draw up a realistic action plan is an important skill that will affect the success of your state management program.
- Firstly, decide what you will do today or this week.
- Secondly, make a specific plan. This is the most difficult and important part in drawing up an action plan. It is useless to decide what you want to do if there is no plan, how to do it. The plan should include the following points:
- What are you going to do (specifically)?
- How long will you do it?
- When will you do it?
- How often will you do it?
When you draw up a plan that suits you, carefully rewrite it and place it in where you will see it every day. Track your advancement at the plan and the problems that you are faced with.
Fulfillment of an action plan
If you have drawn up an action plan and set real tasks, it will be easy enough to perform it. Ask the members of your family or friends to participate in assessing how you are moving along the path to achieving the goal, since the need to report to someone about your successes creates additional motivation.
When fulfilling the plan, track your daily actions. Cross things when they are done. This will help you make the impression of how realistic and implemented your plan is and will help when drawing up plans in the future.
Grade achieved results
At the end of each week, check if you have completed the planned action plan and have you advanced to achieve the goal. The time period is also important. Perhaps you will not notice progress every day, but at the end of each week you will definitely see that you have advanced forward. At the end of each week, evaluate how you have completed your action plan. If you are faced with problems, it's time to think about how to solve them.
Amendments and phased solutions to problems
When you are trying to overcome difficulties, it may turn out that the primary plan is not the most practical and successful. If something does not work out, do not give up. Try it in a different way: change your short-term plans in such a way as to make it easier for yourself, allocate more time to perform complex tasks, set new milestones on the way to the goal or ask for consultants, relatives, medical workers for help or council.
Promotion of oneself
The most pleasant part in managing yourself is the pleasant sensations that you get when the goal is achieved and life is felt more fully, joyful and pleasant.
Nevertheless, do not wait for the moment to achieve the goal - encourage yourself constantly. Promotion should not be some fantastic and expensive, because there are many ways and events that give pleasure in life.
Conclusion
People living with HIV live richly and interesting when they find the goal and meaning of life, and begin to follow the path to achieving them. Reaching the goal, communicating and interacting with people, interpersonal relationships arise, manifest and are formed, there is an exchange of thoughts, feelings, experiences, etc. These processes will update relations with others and harmonize their own mental state.
A self -produced or adopted system can help to help life with meaning - it can be yoga and other exercises. The life system gives psychological power. And if physical exercises are included in this system, they will help to produce endorphins - hormones of the location of the spirit (antidepressants).
Several recommendations that contribute to the implementation of the goals:
- Reduce the "bar". You can relax if you want it. But try to achieve the set goal every day.
- Remember that the most important victory is a victory over yourself.
- Do not reproach yourself excessively if something does not work out. But make it a rule again and again start all over again.
- Live every day as a short life.
- Live on the schedule. This regulates biorhythms.
- Avoid conflict situations. Do not communicate with people unpleasant for you.
- Visit support groups for people living with HIV. There is a special atmosphere and the influence of the team. Valuable is the exchange of information and experience. In the group, it is easier to find the goal and meaning of life.
- The family is one of the main sources of energy, "mobilize" the family. If you work with a psychologist, connect your family to this.
HIV/AIDS prevention department
GU RTsgeyoz
