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Ok this is for particularly males. Ive read that the mental distress with thinking u have herpes and the whole paranoid thing can make any abnormality look like herpes. I know for me it has that. anything i see i always wonder is it herpes even though im quite sure i havent contracted the virus. I just want to know how much of an effect your mind has on ure physical state. as soon as i found out tingling was a sympton for herpes.. GUESS WHAT i tingled like crazy. a few months later when i read an article and realised itching was a sympton also. and what do ya know? im itching like crazy now. ive read alot of the posts and realised that everyone is pretty much describing somthing differnt. it would be good for people to post here what symptons they had (mental/physical) and if they were tested, there doctors feed back. because so far i here people say of little white dots, black and blue raised bumps, skin toned bumps and pimple look-a-likes. i dont even know what a coldsoar is anymore im so paranoid! everything i see on my body i think its a cold soar and im going insane.

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also ive heard that a herpes outbreak is "excrutiatingly painful" i think were all going a little crazy over stuff in our groin region( i know i am :P ) I say this because when u think about it your groin region has more friction, more bacteria do to urinating and deficating and more hair than most place on ure body. all of that is gonna cuz the redness and some pimples. i think people need to think rationally b4 assuming its herpes. i think ive actually gone mentally insanse. I thought my first reply to this board was like 2 weeks ago. I realised today its only been 4 days!!!! since then my so called "herpes" has been off and on. I have come to the conclusion that i dont have it becuase what kind of soar leaves then comes back then leaves and comes back in the course of 2-4 days.

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Sorry to interrupt... ('cuz you said it's for male :D )

But.. I saw this on TV.
They did an experiment using people who get eczema when they touch a certain kind of plant.

They blindfold the eczema patients, and say "Ok, now, I'm gonna put extract of the plant on your right hand, and put water on your left hand." But what they really did was, putting the extract on their left hand, and water on right hand.
The result was, the most of them got rash on their right hands, and didn't get any rash on their left hands.

Your mental state can really affect on your body...
So sometimes, trying not to think about it may be the best cure...

Ok, that's it.... just wanted to share this.. :D

Faith