My Journey to halt/end my psoriasis

[Fred]

I hear ya with the sit and wait. I sometimes wonder if I am psychosomatic myself.  Truth is though, with all the issues I have going on right now (PTSD, Diabetes, Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis) I, or any doctor would be hard pressed to say one symptom or another is directly attributed to one condition or the other. I just want to be prepared for any other issues that may arise in the future. I am a prime target for many conditions associated with all my diagnoses. Well.....no more. I am done sitting by and letting things happen. No more letting others take control of my health, my destiny. It's time I took care of myself and fully insert myself into the decisions concerning my health. I am angry. I am terrified. I am a hot mess. I have to sort this out and make a concrete plan with my GP, Psychologist, Psychiatrist and any other person that gets dragged into the mess I call a life. Sadly, the stress of dealing with all of this profoundly affected my PTSD. I am having more flashbacks and they are debilitating all on their own. They are even happening at work! Fortunately, I work in a situation where I can hide what has happened. How long I can hide it, I don't know. But dammit! I am gonna fight, learn, take charge and put things into action, if it kills me!!!

Sorry to have dumped on ya, Fred. But thanks for listening. 

Cheers,
Wintrman

You're not dumping on me Wintrman, if it helps you to talk then I (and I'm sure a lot more members) are happy to listen. 

We all have different ways of getting on in our lives, and I'm a firm believer of arming yourself with information when it comes to making a decision about a new treatment but for me I prefer the suck it and see approach.

I'm lucky and never experienced PTSD though I did suffer from bad depression many years ago, so I get a little idea of where you are coming from in trying to sort things out in your life.

I hope your plan works and you can at least get on top of one problem, be it psoriasis or diabetes one at a time would be my approach. But I'm not you so all I can do is give my thoughts and offer to listen if it helps.

If all else fails you can always go to [Group Specific] and chill out in Caroline's giant bean bag whilst she's in the office.