You Know What’s Depressing? Finding Out You Have an STD

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You Know What’s Depressing? Finding Out You Have an STD

When you think about “sexual health,” you may think “STDs”â€"as in, herpes, HIV, gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, and a host of other infections I won’t go into. One thing that probably doesn’t pop into your head is how having a sexually transmitted disease can affect someone mentally and emotionally. But for many, the impact beyond the physical effects of an infectionâ€"and of course sometimes there is no clear evidence that one’s infected at allâ€"can be huge. However, since we rarely talk about the taboo subject of STDs, we often don’t talk about the mental impact of having one, either. ...

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