艾滋病恐惧症患者的自杀行为

Irrational fear of AIDS associated with suicidal behavior

艾滋病恐惧症通常是患者在婚外性行为后感到内疚及羞耻的基础上发生的。尽管HIV抗体检测阴性，患者却仍坚信自己患有艾滋病，并担心会将疾病及死亡带给家人而产生自杀企图或实施自杀。此文综述了艾滋病恐惧症患者的自杀行为，也将艾滋病恐惧症与梅毒恐惧症进行了对比。虽然这样的病例并不常见，并且在这种患者中的自杀行为也不常见，但对临床医生了解这类患者具有潜在的自杀危险还是有所助益的。

Irrational fear of AIDS can occur when people suffer from high levels of guilt and shame arising from extramarital sex. Despite negative medical testing of anti-HIV, the patients can come to acquire an irrational conviction that they have AIDS and fear of infection and death to others, so they maybe commit or attempt to suicide. In this paper, suicidal behavior among AIDS phobia patients and contrast between AIDS phobia and syphilis phobia are reviewed. While AIDS phobia may not be common, and suicide acts based on this symptom complex may not be common, it is helpful for physicians to learn potential suicidal risk among these patients.