If You Need HIV Treatment but You Don't Have Health Insurance, Then Take This First Step.

 

What's Your HIV Plan of Care?

So you just found out that you are HIV positive. You may have heard about all of the current medication treatments and you are probably wondering where do I go if I can not afford health insurance? Well, there is an online tool to get you started. If you are thinking that you can not afford the treatment, well there are options out there for you. The people at these services are here to help you and not to judge you in any way regardless of your situation. Take the first step and connect with one of them.

Step one

  Go to  https://findhivcare.hrsa.gov/ and input your zip code or your city and state. For example, I will use Antioch Tennessee.

Step two

Find the treatment center that you want to attend and click on their website or use there phone number and call them.

Step 3

Using the website's dropdown menu click on the service that you need which in this case is the First Response Primary Care Clinic.

 Step four

With this example, I did not see a phone number, but there was a Contact Us page where you can send a message. Some sites may have a phone number and an address. Most of the sites give an actual physical address. 

• This was just an example and your results will vary depending on where you live. I picked this place at random just to give you an idea of the process to get started.

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Can I get HIV services?

🏳️‍🌈You can get RWHAP HIV care and support services if:

🏳️‍🌈You are diagnosed with HIV or AIDS 

🏳️‍🌈You are low income (as decided by city, county, state, or clinic financial criteria) 

🏳️‍🌈You have no health insurance or you have insurance that doesn’t pay for the care you need

What happens when I go for services?

When you go for services, a case manager can help you: 

• Understand what services you can get 
• Apply for health care coverage 
• Find out if you have to pay for any of the costs yourself 

What services can I get?

1. Medical Care
2. AIDS Drug Assistance Program Treatments 
3. AIDS Pharmaceutical Assistance 
4. Early Intervention Services  
5. Health Insurance Premium and Cost-Sharing Assistance for Low-Income Individuals 
6. Home and Community-Based Health Services 
7. Home Health Care 
8. Hospice  
9. Medical Case Management, including Treatment Adherence Services 
10. Medical Nutrition Therapy 
11. Mental Health Services 
12. Oral Health Care 
13. Outpatient/Ambulatory Health Services 
14. Substance Abuse Outpatient Care 

Support Services (Available Care & Services | Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, n.d.): 

• Child Care Services 
• Emergency Financial Assistance 
• Food Bank/Home Delivered Meals 
• Health Education/Risk Reduction 
• Housing 
• Legal Services 
• Linguistic Services 
• Medical Transportation 
• Non-Medical Case Management Services 
• Other Professional Services 
• Outreach Services 
• Permanency Planning 
• Psychosocial Support Services 
• Referral for Health Care and Support Services 
• Rehabilitation Services 
• Respite Care 
• Residential Substance Abuse Services


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This is a lot of information and may appear overwhelming. Just take it one step at a time by setting small goals. For instance, a single goal for today could be to just look up a care center and either call or use their online contact form. Do not overwhelm yourself by worrying if will qualify or how you will pay for the meds, just schedule an appointment at one of the centers.

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References

 Available Care & Services | Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. (n.d.). Ryanwhite.hrsa.gov. https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/hiv-care/services

‌Find a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Medical Provider. (n.d.). Findhivcare.hrsa.gov. https://findhivcare.hrsa.gov/

Metropolitan FRC |. (n.d.). Retrieved September 2, 2023, from https://metropolitanfrc.com/

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Erikson

Erikson

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• Erik Erikson was born in 1902 in Germany and trained at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute before coming to the United States.

🧱Taught atYale University

🧱Taught at the University of California at Berkley

🧱Taught at Harvard

🧱 Worked as a psychology practitioner

🧱Erikson proposed that the ego is supposed to develop in stages

Erikson's eight stages of development (Shiraev, 2016). 

  Stage                                      Ego Crisis                                     Age                        Positive Outcome

     One                                    TrustVs.Mistrust                           0-2                                  Hope

     Two                               Autonomy vs shame/doubt                2-3                                  Will

    Three                             Initiative vs Guilt                               3-5                                Purpose

      

   Four                             Industry vs Inferiority                      5-12                           Competence

    

  Five                                Ego identity vs role confusion         adolescence                 Fidelity

Six                                 Intimacy vs. Isolation                        Young Adulthood        Love

Seven                             Generativity                                        Adulthood             Care

Eight                              Ego integrity vs despair                       Maturity               Wisdom

 

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According to Erikson if the crisis for a certain stage was not met, then the ego would lose strength which would result in poor adaption (Shiraev, 2016). 

🧱Identity Crisis

Erikson believed it was the result of tension or conflict between the developing ego and the changing world (Shiraev, 2016). 

• Erikson's theory differed from psychoanalysis which theorized that the personality is shaped during infancy and early childhood. 
• So basically Erikson's theory of development stated that development was an ongoing process, and psychoanalytic theories believed that infancy and early childhood developed personality.

🧱1969 Erikson wrote about the great Indian Mohandas Gandhi

Erikson believed the goal of psychotherapy was to encourage the growth of whatever virtues a person was missing so that person could achieve happiness(Shiraev, 2016).  

References

Shiraev, E. (2016). Personality Theories: A Global View. SAGE Publications, Inc. (US). https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781506300795

 Anna Freud

Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter, Anna Freud, was born in Vienna. " At the age of 15, she was reading her father's articles and books (Shiraev, 2016). She trained in Germany to work as a teacher and in 1938 she along with her family escaped persecution by the Nazis and migrated from Austria to London. 

🥏She started the Anna Freud Centre a child therapy clinic. 

🥏She was awarded the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria.

🥏She emphasized that children could not explain their psychological problems the way adults could

🥏She wrote The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense in 1966

She wrote about the ego's struggle with the overwhelming demands of the id, on the one hand, and powerful restrictions imposed by reality, on the other (Shiraev, 2016).

Ego Defenses

Unconscious structures enable an individual to avoid awareness of unpleasant, anxiety-arousing issues (Shiraev, 2016). 

🟥The ego functions to defend itself from these issues.

🟥The ego does this automatically in an unconscious way.

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Anna Freud theorized ten basic defense mechanisms (Shiraev, 2016).

🧩 Repression

🧩Regression 

🧩Reaction formation

   🧩  Undoing        🧩 Isolation

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Projection                                                     🧩 Self-Harm                       🧩 Introjection

🧩 Rationalization                          🧩Displacement

References

Shiraev, E. (2016). Personality Theories: A Global View. SAGE Publications, Inc. (US). https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781506300795

Ego Psychology 

Psychoanalysis is a theory of personality that has had a long-lasting impact on psychology. Freud's followers supported some elements of the theory, refined others, and outright rejected yet others.They contributed to personality psychology by paying serious attention to social factors contributing to an individual's development and experience (Shiraev, 2016). 

🟥Most of Freud's followers accepted the general idea that infantile conflicts affect the individual's adult experiences and personality features.

🟥Psychoanalytic therapy can help the individual become aware of these conflicts🟥🟥

 🟥This is the idea that unresolved conflicts from childhood can have a lasting impact on our personality and behavior.

🟥They also acknowledged that the individual is generally unaware of these conflicts.

🟥This is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping the individual to understand and resolve their unconscious conflicts.

 

Several trends emerged in the new wave of psychoanalysis.

• Some psychoanalysts focused on a further examination of the ego and its functioning.
• Ego psychology focuses on how the ego interacts with the social environment.
• Other psychoanalysts focused on the role of object relations in personality development.
• Object relations theory emphasizes the importance of early relationships with caregivers in shaping the individual's personality.

Other psychoanalysts focused on the role of culture in personality development.

Cultural psychoanalysis emphasizes the importance of social and cultural factors in shaping the individual's personality (Shiraev, 2016). 

Resources

Shiraev, E. (2016). Personality Theories: A Global View. SAGE Publications, Inc. (US). https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781506300795

 

 Sometimes the Things We Enjoy Doing the Most Are the Things We Don't Want Others to See

We all have things that we enjoy doing, but sometimes those things are things that we don't want others to see. Maybe we're embarrassed about them, or maybe we think that others won't understand. Whatever the reason, there's something about these activities that makes us want to keep them private.

• There are many reasons why we might enjoy doing things that we don't want others to see. Sometimes, it's because these activities are simply a way for us to relax and de-stress. When we're around other people, we often feel like we have to put on a front and pretend to be someone we're not. But when we're alone, we can let loose and be ourselves.

• Other times, we enjoy doing things that we don't want others to see because they're a way for us to express ourselves creatively. Maybe we're a writer who likes to write in a private journal, or maybe we're a musician who likes to sing in the shower. These activities allow us to tap into our creativity and express ourselves in ways that we might not be able to do in front of others.

• Finally, sometimes we enjoy doing things that we don't want others to see because they're a way for us to escape from reality. Maybe we're feeling stressed or overwhelmed, and we need a way to take a break from our everyday lives. Watching a sad movie or reading a trashy novel can be a way for us to escape from our problems and just relax for a while.

Whatever the reason, there's nothing wrong with enjoying things that we don't want others to see. In fact, these activities can be a healthy way for us to relax, express ourselves, and escape from reality. So next time you feel the urge to do something that you're not sure you should do, go ahead and do it. You might be surprised at how much you enjoy it.

Psychoanalysis in Nazi Germany: A Dark Chapter in History

 

Psychoanalysis as a theory and its application in clinical, educational, and other spheres was influenced by each country’s conditions.

 

Freud’s works were translated into several languages:

French  

                             English

 Spanish     🌍

Italian                Russian

In the Soviet Union in the 1920s, some government officials initially supported psychoanalysis despite the official communist doctrine of limiting the spread of scientific knowledge from capitalist countries (Shiraev, 2016). 

🧩These officials believed that psychoanalysis could help reveal the psychological weaknesses and flaws of individuals living in a capitalist society.

Several Soviet scholars received government funding to start psychoanalytic centers.

🎞️🎞️Sabrina Spielrein (1885–1942)

 Soviet psychoanalyst and former patient and confidante of Jung, returned to the Soviet Union to use psychoanalysis in her work with children. Her life was popularized in the 2011 Hollywood movie A Dangerous Method, in which Keira Knightley played her role (Shiraev, 2016). 

📅1930s        

• 📅📅Soviet Union's support for psychoanalysis ended
• 🌍🌍 Psychoanalysis theorizes the power of unconscious processes and this did not align with the communist ideology.
• 🌍Communists believed that all inner conflicts within someone would disappear once they were placed in conditions of what they called social equality under communism (Shiraev, 2016). 
• 🌍🧩🧩 From the 1930's to the 1980s psychologists in the Soviet Union could only write or teach about Freud and his views from a critical perspective.

🟥 Psychoanalysis was labeled Jewish science and this allowed Germany to openly attack professors and clinicians (Shiraev, 2016).

🟥In 1933 The Nazi Party rose to power.

🟥Germany collected and burned Freud's books🟥Anyone who studied or taught psychoanalysis was punished

 

 Only a few managed to emigrate from Germany to the United States or other countries; many others died in concentration camps. Psychoanalysis was soon officially banned in Germany as both a theory and treatment method (Shiraev, 2016).

Martha Gellhorn: A Pioneering War Correspondent

 

Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn was a pioneering war correspondent who challenged the established rules of journalism. She was motivated by her own personal beliefs and desires, and she wasn't afraid to challenge the status quo (Shiraev, 2016).

• Gellhorn did not believe in Freud's theory of unresolved infantile conflicts or Adler's logic of overcoming inferiority.
• She read Freud but disagreed with him. She did not believe that unresolved infantile conflicts were the source of her actions. She had a happy childhood and loving parents. She disliked self-pity and believed that people must take responsibility for their own lives. She even criticized Freud for giving people the right to blame someone else for their own problems.
• Instead, she may have been motivated by anger, boredom, or a desire to scream.
• She may also have been motivated by self-challenge, or a desire to make a difference.

Martha Gellhorn read Freud's work, but she disagreed with his theory that unresolved conflicts from childhood are the source of our actions. She had a happy childhood with loving parents, and she believed that people must take responsibility for their own lives. She even criticized Freud for giving people an excuse to blame their problems on others (Shiraev, 2016).

Only Gellhorn knew what motivated her, but her story is an inspiration to those who are willing to fight for what they believe in.

• Gellhorn's work as a war correspondent took her to some of the most dangerous and chaotic places in the world, including Spain, Finland, France, and Vietnam.
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  She was one of the first female reporters to be accepted by male colleagues as an equal.
• Her writing was often praised for its honesty and immediacy.
• She was a recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Her work has been credited with helping to shape public opinion about war and conflict  (Shiraev, 2016).

References

 

Shiraev, E. (2016). Personality Theories: A Global View. SAGE Publications, Inc. (US). https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781506300795