Les héros de la lutte contre le SIDA sont fatigués - What really killed Spencer Cox, AIDS activist ?
Surviving AIDS, but Not the Life That Followed
“There were so many people that came to Act Up young, and they never got to have a life,” he said. “Spencer didn’t even finish Bennington. But these kids were attracted to the activism, and by the time that we were out of the woods they were too old to get jobs. They were too old to get careers."
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Walt Odets is a clinical psychologist in Berkeley, Calif., who knew Mr. Cox and has written extensively about the aftereffects of H.I.V. on long-term survivors. Dr. Odets is reluctant to use terms like “post-traumatic stress disorder” and “pill fatigue” to describe what happened to the veterans of Act Up, but he said it was clear the epidemic did not end for them when therapeutic drugs came along.
“It was an extraordinary trauma comparable to a wartime experience,” Dr. Odets said. “For many gay men, after the epidemic was over, there was a loss of energy and vitality. It’s like going from a car that runs on rocket fuel to one that runs on gasoline. And it had to be bewildering for Spencer.”
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/fashion/what-really-killed-spencer-cox-aids-activist.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
