can you please suggest a way in which to deal with my second outbreak of herpes? i'm totally alone this time and i don't know what to do.
Hi there! I’m sorry this has taken me a few days to answer - how are you feeling? Being alone, combined with an outbreak can be very taxing on your self esteem. We can begin to equate our alone-ness to the outbreak and vise versa. I believe this is because of what we have been taught to believe about herpes. We are told that it is disgusting, for sluts, for promiscuous people, bad karma for awful people - the ideas people have about herpes are vast and all of them are usually negative. But they are not true. If you can change the way you feel and think about herpes, that it is none of those things, that you are none of those things, then I think it makes the expressions easier to deal with. Think of them like a zit on your face or a scrape on your knee - something insignificant, something that your body is trying to heal. It doesn’t own you, you’re not marked, you’re not dirty - you have something in your body that is expressing itself and now you’re trying to heal. Soon enough it will be gone and healed. Be kind to yourself, take care of yourself and make sure you are doing precisely what you need to do to connect with how awesome you are. I hope this helps and that you’re feeling ok!
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