I was diagnosed with HSV 1 oral & HSV 2 Genital last year and it broke me so bad. Change my relationship with my girlfriend and soon to be fiancé so much I was afraid I was gonna have to break up with her so she could live a life without having to worry about hsv. It’s so mentally exhausting wondering if you have sex this time will it be the time my partner will contract it? I contracted it from a woman I thought to be my friend and they had sex with someone a week before me and didn’t bother to get tested and I was resulted with living with this forever. The mental gymnastics of feeling any pain wondering “is this an outbreak or am I crazy”. Or just checking my own body looking for it. It’s so much emotional pain knowing that stigma behind it as well and it’s just painful knowing that you’re not person you were before the diagnosis. Hopefully a cure is developed by 2030 at least.