Hi!
I'm new to this forum, and the main reason I joined was because I want to make friends who can help and support me through this and, of course, I will do the same for them c:
I was diagnosed in January, this year, after getting horrible flu and very sore and itchy lady parts T^T
My partner didn't give this to me, but he has been so supportive to me. We've been together a year (today, actually, yay!), and it upsets me that I have this so early in this relationship and my life (I'm only 18).
I don't know where I got it from, all I know is that I want to get rid of it. I hate living in constant fear that I will have an outbreak and have to pop pills in college or that I will pass it on to my partner. I took last week off because I didn't want people to question me, and having someone in my class who works in a pharmacy doesn't help, at all.
Since finding out I have this, I've noticed my sex drive has dropped a lot. I mean a lot. It's probably because I'm worried about giving it to my boyfriend, it doesn't damage our relationship, but I feel terrible because he still wants to get intimate with me and I can't get in the mood to.
I also suffer a crippling depression and mild schizophrenia, which leads me to have psychotic episodes. I was finally getting better and the episodes were dying down, I hadn't had one since my partner and I got together and suddenly my world came crashing down.
As supporting as my partner is, he doesn't have this, so he doesn't fully understand the emotional and physical burdens it carries with it. Which is why I signed up, I need a friend, or friends, who can help me to not feel so alone in this.
Thank you, for reading. I feel a lot better for typing this all out c: