Presentation: Peter Zajc_Mental Healthcare Standards – Perspectives from the HIV Clinic, Ljubljana

Intertwining of biological, psychological, social factors:

• Crisis state and adjustment disorder, PTSD (30%):

• Crisis is a state of feeling; an internal experience of confusion and anxiety to the degree

that formerly successful coping mechanisms fail us and ineffective decisions and

behaviors take their place.

• Anxiety disorders (2-40%): Panic disorder, Generalised anxiety disorder

• Mood Disorders: Depressive disorder ( 22-50%), mania

• Substance use disorders (40-74%): alcochol, illicit drugs, chemsex

• Psychosis (0,2-15%)

• Psychoorganic and cognitive disorders: delirium, cognitive impairment,

dementia, sleep disturbance (10-50%)