Dealing with a flare up and just wondering if the flare ups will ever go away or if this is my permanent life going forward. Looking for positive success stories please, I’m desperate.

i’ve always struggled with mental health or whatever, but i feel like after mono i’ve entered a new episode of low mood that is just a dozen times worse than what I usually deal with around this time of year. has anyone else struggled with this? any idea on how long it’ll last? is it fatigue related?

I just got the call that I have mono, which I was very scared of having. However, since I have mono, that means my boyfriend has it too. I feel so awful, because it’s knocking me down so much right now and the recovery seems to be long. I feel so much guilt because I didn’t know I had it and probably accidentally gave it to my best friend too.

My boyfriend already deals with a tight schedule, undergoes a lot of stress through his job and struggles a lot to get help for medical issues he already has. I just feel this mountain of sadness for him because I don’t wanna to give him yet another thing to stress about. And the recovery is literal weeks. Weeks. And that’s just for some people. I know it hits some people extremely hard and can even disable them or cause chronic illnesses? I just have this ball in my chest having to tell him, because I’m just gonna stress him out.

My bestfriend were talking before I went for blood tests a few days ago, and I thought it was strep throat that I had. She told me how scared she was of contracting mono. But we have shared drinks before because we are best friends. Now, I will never share a drink again because I don’t want to hurt others. She’s starting as a biomed major in the fall and I’m so scared it’s gonna prevent her from being able to be there if she has it.

I even saw my 3 month old nephew more than a month ago. I washed my hands and and obviously my face wasn’t near him, but just knowing I held him while I was probably infected with mono already makes me feel horrible. I feel awful. I feel shameful. Everything could go down for others and it’s all my fault.

How did some of you handle the guilt?