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Clearfield Pennsylvania H Pal
Well my name is Jenn
I am 21 years old. I was diagnosed with
HSV-2 several
months ago. When i found out
I was in total shock. I thought that my life was over, and even
if it wasn't I wanted it to be. I became severely depressed and
even suicidal. I felt so
guilty, ashamed, and I was very mad. Actually I was beyond mad.
If finding out that I had HSV-2
wasn't bad enough, the last guy that I had been with the only
guy that I had dated in a year was telling me that he did not
have it and that there was no way that it was even possible that
he had it. There was no doubt in his mind that he was
STD free. He said that since
he had only been with any other woman in the past 6 years I must
have been the one that had it and that he
probably got it from me.
I started doing a lot of
research and I did at one point wonder if I had got it from one of
the other four guys that I had been with since I lost my virginity.
I knew that you aren't completely protected by condoms. But I just
felt that there was no way that I had gotten it from someone else
when I had been diagnosed with it 10 days after having unprotected
sex with him. Especially since that was my first time not being
protected.
About a month after I
first talked to him about it he came to try to talk to me. He told
me that he had been tested, which was a lie, and that the test was
negative. A few days later he talked to his ex and found out that
she had gotten it at one point when they had split up, then she
decided that she would get back at him by trying to give it to
him. So he admitted that he had not been tested and
apologized to me for lying and
not believing me. We tried to hook
back up and it was going ok for a
few weeks until I realized how much resentment I had for him
over the whole situation. Well I
have been going to see a therapist, and I have become better able to
deal with the whole situation. Seeing him doesn't bother me at all
anymore which is good because he is my
neighbor. I still have some bad days, but they are not near
as bad as they were when I first found out.
It made me realize that
you should never judge anyone because you don't know the whole
story. I have been judged a lot in the past few months
and some people can't look past
the fact that I have HSV-2. But
all I have to say to them is "That is your problem, there is a lot
more to me than the fact that I got Herpes." I know that there are
going to be people that are afraid of getting it and ones that want
to think that I sleep around because I got HSV
but those are just the people who are uneducated and if they can't
take the time to educate themselves before they try to judge me they
are not even worth my time. -
Jenn
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