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Let's Talk About STDs (Because Someone Has To)

  Posted by Julia | 7 min read Alright, let's dive into the topic everyone gets weird about but absolutely needs to hear. Sexual health. STDs. Testing. All that fun stuff that makes people squirm in their seats. I'm gonna be brutally honest with you because sugar-coating this stuff helps nobody. And trust me, I've learned some things the hard way that I wish someone had told me earlier. My Wake-Up Call at 22 About a year ago, I went for my regular testing and got a call I wasn't expecting. "Julia, you need to come in to discuss your results." My heart literally stopped. Like, I'm pretty sure I forgot how to breathe for a solid thirty seconds. Turns out it was chlamydia. Totally treatable, caught early, no big deal medically speaking. But emotionally? I was a mess. I spent the entire drive home crying and beating myself up, even though my doctor kept telling me it happens to sexually active people all the time. The thing that re...