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Sat-21-02-2015, 05:12 AM
I know that I wouldn't have dealt with it very well had I experienced psoriasis at an earlier age.
I did (and do) deal with embarrassment. I could keep most of my psoriasis covered, the places on my face I could cover with make up and my ears (which looked awful) I tried to just keep covered with my hair. Clothing covered the rest. What I couldn't hide was the scaling from the scalp psoriasis. I was extremely self conscious over it and just tried wearing colors that it wouldn't show up as bad on and constantly brushing off my shoulders when I could if out in public.
Plus the constant itching and the burning (at first) was horrible. It affected my sleep and just made me feel miserable as you all know and that can make it hard to stay positive.
For me, finding The Psoriasis Club helped me tremendously during that time. It gave me hope hearing how others were clear or mostly clear from different treatments and also people to chat with that just knew how it felt. So it didn't really get me down, or perhaps it's more accurate to say the people here kept me from getting down.
I don't have psoriatic arthritis so my movement wasn't affected (at least not from this, but that's another story)
I did (and do) deal with embarrassment. I could keep most of my psoriasis covered, the places on my face I could cover with make up and my ears (which looked awful) I tried to just keep covered with my hair. Clothing covered the rest. What I couldn't hide was the scaling from the scalp psoriasis. I was extremely self conscious over it and just tried wearing colors that it wouldn't show up as bad on and constantly brushing off my shoulders when I could if out in public.
Plus the constant itching and the burning (at first) was horrible. It affected my sleep and just made me feel miserable as you all know and that can make it hard to stay positive.
For me, finding The Psoriasis Club helped me tremendously during that time. It gave me hope hearing how others were clear or mostly clear from different treatments and also people to chat with that just knew how it felt. So it didn't really get me down, or perhaps it's more accurate to say the people here kept me from getting down.
I don't have psoriatic arthritis so my movement wasn't affected (at least not from this, but that's another story)