I've learned in life that we experience many seasons.

The carefree abandon of childhood is a season.  The turmoil and drama of teenage years are a season, that while it seems to last an eternity is truly a short span of our lives.

The ups and downs of adult hood are also a season.  Financial hardship, break ups, jobs we hate, the passing of a loved one.  While they are hard, difficult, at time emotionally devastating, in most cases the common thread is each of these seasons does indeed pass with time.

I know that when you are first diagnosed with Herpes you feel it's an event so profound you will never move past the feeling you are having right now, this minute.  But it I can assure you of one thing, it's this:

The time you are going through right now is indeed a season of life.  It's a dark one for sure, just like the shortest and grayest days of winter, but rest assured, without fail, spring always comes.

It will get better and this season in your life will pass.

So take a deep breath, pull your britches up (as my grandma used to say) and look ahead.  You might want to consider joining a forum made of others experiencing the same season as you.   Make some new friends.  Anything to point you  in the direction of springtime, because that is where you want to be.