A herpes cure?

0:00A cure for herpes what if I were to tell you that you already have the Cure at your disposal well what if well you do it's all in your head now there are a lot of different promises out there in the world of herpes that there's going to be a cure sometime soon a physical cure for it so that you'll never have outbreaks again there's plenty of marketing schemes out there if you do a search for a cure for herpes on Google everyone trying to make money off of you to become attached to this this hope this hope of being cured of something the hope to be cured of something that's incurable well there are a few studies out there that are saying that there might be a cure but it always seems to me that this cure is just a little bit too far in the future and that hope that I may be ...

1:25... holding out for this cure is holding me back from actually just living my life and being happy right now so why can't I be happy right now so where is the cure first of all we have to recognize that as as people with herpes at first it it starts off being this whole shame around me having this physical thing called herpes I have this virus called herpes and and I'll get these outbreaks and I'm going to have to divulge to my partners that I have herpes it starts off like that but then ultimately the pain and the shame that is associated with herpes it goes deeper it's more psychological than physical so it's not necessarily about trying trying to find a cure that will cure us from these physical symptoms of herpes I mean let's be honest physical symptoms of herpes is not that big a deal at all I mean they're little bumps but ...

2:45... it's the shame that's associated with it and what our society tells us about what herpes is that's that's what gets us and the cool thing is the psychological part of it hey that's in our heads and we have control over what we think about how we think about things so it's about changing the relationship that each one of us has to herpes yeah it sounds simple I make it sound simple when I just say it like that it took me years and years of processing but I don't think it has to take years and years I think coming at this from this positive angle of saying yeah everyone has things in their life that they deal with herpes is my thing I may have other things that I'm dealing with but herpes can can be a a teacher in our lives so let's not assume the worst it's just a virus let's call a spade ...

4:07... a spade let's be real about what this really is and act on that instead of acting on what Society might be telling us how we should be the cure for herpes is knowing that I'm fine as I am there's nothing wrong with me