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Breaking The Shame of My Herpes Diagnosis - How You Can Handle!

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I was diagnosed with genital herpes in 2015, and so like many of you, when you find out you've been diagnosed with herpes, it's like this blow to your self-esteem. It's this blow to your ego to your core. It just rocks you. It shakes you, and you don't know how to accept it or to process it. Many of us don't let reality sink in because we go into this cycle of depression, confusion denial.

So I had to let the fog of that kind of lift and truly accept that I've been diagnosed. As of right now, there is no known cure for the virus, so it wasn't going anywhere anytime soon, and so I had to accept that I had it, and it sounds like, but for a lot of people, we avoid trying to deal with things by filling our minds in our days with other activities. So we can avoid dealing with the painful, complicated, and life-altering stuff like this diagnosis. So I had to accept that was my reality finally, and it helped me heal and move forward in breaking the shame.

Accept the fact; You have herpes. The second thing I did to help break the shame with my herpes diagnosis was that I went inward. I like almost as I took myself into like an ICU an intensive care unit, you know when you're an ICU, or you visit someone who's in ICU. There's like very few people that can come in and out only you know doctors and nurses limited visitation limited movement and mobility you kind of just like in this bubble of protection, and that's what I had to do for myself. I had to truly make myself my number one priority to get through the day. Many days, it was just getting through the day, even if they were filled with tears, even if it was filled with some sadness or some. I went inward, and I just loved on myself, and I just gave myself space to feel the things that I was feeling, processing that this was my reality processing. the fact that you know accepting the responsibility that you know I put myself in a compromising situation.

I look inward, reflect, and take the time for myself. I accepted myself as I was going inward doing the reflection. I started to get my flaws, and I have so many great things about me. I have so many significant accomplishments and achievements and degrees and air force. You know family members, friends and I'm an entrepreneur and all these beautiful accomplishments on the outside. So I had to recognize my worth and the things that I had already accomplished and many of them are now finding friends and love through Herpes Dating Site I also had to realize I'm a fantastic friend listener. I'm great at what I do. I have a gift; I just had to understand who I was. I also had to admit my shortcomings. It was beneficial, so I strongly recommend that you take some time for yourself.

I had some issues with self-esteem, I had some problems with self-love I had some issues feeling valuable or needing validation from people outside of myself. So I had to fully recognize the good and the bad, the areas of improvement, and the areas that deserve praise. So fully accepting myself as a primary key in getting over the shame in that realization of all of my accomplishments and all of the quirks.


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