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I'm honestly a loser?
Here I sit on my computer contemplating my life and typing questions out of loneliness. I have no plans for the 4th of July and have wasted my life to this point (I'm almost 20). I was recently diagnosed with psoriasis and it's spreading. I understand the social isolation (and romantic isolation) that people with significant psoriasis coverage suffer and I'm not looking forward to it. It might very well be the straw that broke the camel's back.
From a psychological and biological perspective, I'm screwed. It's not as though I have this awesome personality and happen to have psoriasis. I have a crappy personality, lack social skills, don't know how to dress, don't know what to say, am selfish, was handed everything and have never had a job, and the list goes on.
I don't know what to do. I honestly can't force myself to go to therapy right now, and psychiatric drugs have negatively impacted my life. I'm approaching hopelessness. What can I do? Thanks.
hey man, i have the fantastic psoriasis flakes too. ^_^ when i first realized i had it, i thought my life was over and i was going to kill myself because it was so ugly, itchy, painful etc. but you learn to live with it and it becomes background music. i have a great boyfriend of 3 years, he's sweet enough to help apply ointments on my back (gross to the general public but the sweetest gesture to me). there's no real isolation there unless that 's the way you see it.
Little kids will be like "you have poison oak?" or "what happened to your arm?" and honestly so might others, but all they really need to hear from you is "it's a skin condition and it's not contagious"
Sometimes i'm a jerk and say "DON'T TOUCH IT!! It's a flesh eating bacteria! oh god you'd better get to the hospital!"
keep in mind that when you're in a bad mood, you mentally link this experience with every other bad mood you've had.. or to put it simply bad thoughts begat bad thoughts. soon you think your life just SUCKS. cliche, but try to look on the bright side. If you can't do that on your own research darfur or progeria.
employment is one option for you....getting a job would suck because you'd have no free time, but it might make you feel more productive. especially if you save up money and buy something you've always wanted but no one ever handed you. besides, if this is what you do in your free time maybe a job would do you some good. co-workers make it easy to nab some social skill experience because they're stuck with you no matter what.
another thing you can do that helped me out a lot: GET A HOBBY. something that you can sort of track. like bowl and watch your score go up. play guitar and track how many chords you can learn. learn to knit, draw, paint, do henna, sing. these are all things that you start out really bad, then the more you do it you can see progress. Progress is good, get some of that.
one final note about psoriasis, me and you have a skin re-generation rate of about 25 times that of those around us. I look at this as an awesome mutant healing factor like wolverine. Wolverine on crack.
Cecilia.
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About the Author
By Wiley Long - President, HSA for America ( http://www.health--savings--accounts.com ) - The nation's leading health insurance agency specializing in coverage that works with Health Savings Accounts.
