Most HIV-phobic people have had highly risky premarital or extramarital sex, often with clandestine prostitutes and women they have met online who are sexually promiscuous. On the one hand, these risky sexual behaviors do increase the chance of HIV infection; on the other hand, because such behaviors are not allowed by social moral norms, they are often internally condemned by moral and social pressures. The struggle between reason and desire, morality and instinct often leads to feelings of contradiction, shame and guilt, and thus they are more likely to develop AIDS phobia. In this case, they see or learn some knowledge about AIDS, but they know nothing about it, thus exaggerating the contagiousness of AIDS, or taking the possible symptoms of AIDS as specific symptoms of AIDS and matching them with their own feelings one by one, making themselves fall into deep fear. Clinical manifestations From a psychological point of view, AIDS phobia is not only due to one-sided knowledge and misunderstanding of the clinical manifestations of AIDS and the means of transmission, but is also closely related to the personality base and other psychological disorders, especially to anxiety disorders. AIDS phobics can be people who have had high-risk behaviors; they can also be people who have not had high-risk behaviors, and their fears come entirely from their own subjective imagination and associations. There are several manifestations of the disease: 1. mental depression, silence, fear and anxiety, and inability to relieve oneself. Whenever they talk about the symptoms they suffer from, they are in pain and suffer from insomnia, palpitations, cold sweats, dizziness, etc. Some even think that death is just around the corner and the world has come to an end. 2.Patients who spread the disease openly claim that they are suffering from AIDS, with serious guilt, and mobilize family members to do the relevant STD examination. 3.Stubbornly, even though they have not been tested for AIDS by many hospitals, they still seek treatment from many doctors. 4.Basic symptoms: obsessive-compulsive symptoms, suspicion symptoms, disease phobic symptoms, depressive symptoms. Treatment Not all AIDS phobias can be simply classified into one category, many patients have multiple manifestations at the same time, so they need to receive comprehensive psychological treatment. For AIDS phobia psychotherapy is necessary, but many patients do not usually think about receiving psychotherapy in the early stages, and many believe that it is not a psychological illness and that their worries are completely normal, especially for those who have had high-risk behaviors. Only after several tests, still can not get rid of their own worry and pain will think of seeking help from a psychiatrist. 1, believe in scientific testing in the window period after the antibody or nucleic acid test is negative to completely rule out the possibility of infection, do not needlessly worry and suspicion. 2.Don’t believe in the symptoms. Many friends suspect that HIV infection is related to their own symptoms, indeed a small number of people will have acute symptoms after being infected with HIV, the condition for acute symptoms is a large number of HIV infections, but such cases are actually very few, and the acute symptoms of HIV are almost non-specific, nothing different from the usual diseases. From a medical point of view, symptoms are not a criterion for determining whether or not one is infected. Almost everyone who is afraid of AIDS has one symptom or another, but the final blood test result is that more than 99% are fine, which is enough to show that symptoms are not credible. 3, try to divert your attention to focus on work or study, care more about your family, participate in outdoor sports to reduce worry and concern, you will find that many of the so-called symptoms will soon be cured.