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The Acne Support Group in Cyberspace Emotional Stress & Trauma Conversation Room
is a support group and chat area for everyday people with acne to visit, discuss, share treatments, provide support, and move through the stressful event of having acne.
This specific ASGiC room is to share, discuss and support each other through the emotional stress and trauma etc that comes with acne for those of us from all walks of life, from teenagers aged 12, to those over 50(!)
This is one of many of the Acne Support Groups out there, with the hope that armed with enough knowledge and support, there will one day come a time when we will all live in a world where we all have clear, healthy normal skin.
Anyone is welcome to post and share experiences and/or just have a general "bawl" about how you feel etc!
Good luck to everyone and remember, take what feels right for you, and let the rest go,
and when in doubt, always consult your doctor :)
Thx - Just Me :-)

Disclaimer - The Acne Support Group in Cyberspace discussions are not intended as medical advice. Its intent is solely informational and educational. The information is not a substitute for talking with your health professional.

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and last link -- and last link (and last link), 23:07:49 09/28/06 Thu

I really appreciate Ms. Frizzle's thoughts; I wish that we had her school's culture of collegiality in our California junior high school.

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TRAUMA FROM MY SCARS -- SOMEONE WHO CARES, 06:26:20 04/23/04 Fri

Hi there to everyone who has gone through all the disappointments of acne scars. Although I have just gone through all the message boards that are on this site-I would say "thankyou" it does mean a lot. I wish this was really around more when I was a little younger-I had more problems back then. It is so nice that they have all these sites because it really shows that their are many people who go through the same problems. I thank the lady who calls herself-"just me " is a angel or just a person that really cares about others. To-"JUST ME"- I read your beginning statement and it was such a reminder of how I really felt and still do from time to time-I read them all and each statement- I kept going ya,ya thats how I felt to. When I was a teenager I wish this was here these sites I mean because I really had no one to talk with-even my own mother didn't seem to understand. I could tell because she has really nice skin and she always said " dont worry- it will go away- it never helped the way she would talk to me. It would make me anger and sad-but my Dad was another story because I INHERITED FROM him. He would be the only one that would talk to me about it-that really did help. He would just tell me ways he dealed with it and storys about when he was younger. Thats why I write here be cause now it seems like I have someone else to talk to-that means a lot to me when I can talk with others and have them concer. Its nice to here another voice out there!!!

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Acne & how we present ourselves to the world -- Just Me, 19:15:02 04/17/04 Sat

I was wondering how many of us acne sufferers have high profile jobs as our faces are such an important aspect of ourselves that we represent to the world and to have it disfigured by acne is tramatising in itself; and to have to deal with people staring at oily or dry skin, redness, acne and it's scars, both mental, emotional and physical is something else.

For teenagers I wonder how many acne sufferers are high school in the 'in crowds', popular and or cheerleaders or football players etc cos of the emotional acne trauma.... I was ok popular in high school but inside I was cringing especially around other popular girls who had perfect skin and felt very inadequate (actually today I still feel inadequate standing next to anyone who has perfect skin with small pores or no pores showing at all!!) I'm sure some of those scars still linger till today subconsciously; though in Singapore acne is much more common than it is in London and at school there were quite a few others with acne so I didn't feel so alone.

My mother was a single parent with us in Singapore and when I was a teenager and my hormones kicked in and the acne began, she didn't have enough money to buy my acne meditation which was horrendous as it was hard enough dealing with crazy hormones, to have to deal with acne and not being able to do anything about it was quite traumatic - and I can emphatise with the current teenagers out there reading in who are reading all the treatments we are having done on our skin and routines etc and they have no control over the money in their household and/or pocket money etc ...

Healing acne and the scars, along with the emotional trauma that goes with it costs money; though I'm sure if teenagers out there did some research they could come up with some cheap home made treatments to help themselves; most likely in the natural form eg homeopathy or home made items our that you can use as facials etc to cleanse your skin and treat your acne.

Take care
Just Me

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Kick starting this room -- Just Me, 23:42:19 04/16/04 Fri

Heya all,

Ok, this room is 4 years overdue (smiles) thou better late than never! It's here for any of us out there to discuss the emotional after effects of having acne, ie:

# scarring
# lack of self esteem
# lack of confidence
# not wanting to go out in public on a bad day
# wanting to stay at home and hide
# feeling everyone is looking at you and your acne
# feeling self loathing
# feeling traumatised by feeling ugly when you look in the mirror and having crying fits
# traumatised by comments by friends and family and strangers that look at you and ask what's wrong with your face or what's that on your face
# wondering when it will all ever stop as it seems never ending
# not wanting to go out on dates cos your skin feels so bad and you feel ugly
# thinking you're never going to live a normal life
# wanting to hide in the house and not go out and work cos you're having such a bad skin day and nothing you do works and/or will camouflage your acne
# feeling like a *freak* especially when all your friends and family around you have normal skin

I guess in some aspects or another I've been traumatised myself personally by all of the above; and those teenagers of you out there and above will be going through the same thing. Here's the space for you to share about it as sharing is healing; as is listening and supporting.

I'm 39 years old now and from time to time I still get the odd acne here and there especially when my period is due though nothing as traumatic as what it used to be, though I don't want to say that too loud as I could get a bad skin day! I've stayed away from work for sure myself when I've had a bad skin day cos hey it's an illness, a disease and it's debillating!! When I was a teenager and probably in my twenties and most likely also in my thirties I have sat staring at the mirror and just cried looking at my skin and the condition it's in.

Why Me? is the question most of us probably ask. What did I do to deserve this horrible, horrible skin? I guess it's an over production of androgen in both males and females, could be hereditary; though I remember going for consultations with dermatologists when I was a teenager at the hospital, they took one look at me said yeah, acne and prescribed tetracycline or minicon etc and said I'd grow out of it. It helped for years; but the antibiotics left scars on me in that it discoloured my teeth (ie at the roots) (we've had this topic 4 years ago on the board).

I had my wisdom teeth taken out a few years ago and the first thing the dentist said to me was that I must have been on antibiotics for many years cos my roots were black! I still have them as souveniers.

This is a starter topic ... I'll let the rest of you carry on .... :-)

Re solutions, lead a healthy lifestyle; cos if you have this condition, then you're one of the *special* ones and need to help your body heal; and realise you can't lead a normal life like anyone else out there with clear skin and are going to have to take special care with your supplements, diet, preferably holistic lifestyle, ie homeopathy (I personally would stay away from antibiotics and/or things like accutane though I know they work for lots of you - they just have side effects like the birth control pill Diannette which I personally took for a few years to control my acne and it did but when I came off the pill, geez, my acne came back horribly and it took like 2 years or so of homeopathy and treatments to get my periods back to normal/regular as they stopped and I had maybe 2-3 periods a year and my periods were yukky ie all sorts of gunk was being discharged! I know people can be desperate though you need to be prepared for the consequences.

Take care
Just Me

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If anyone would like a different topic for the separate boards than what I've chosen, please let me know, inserting Topic for ASGic Board in your subject header and I can easily change them. Thx, Just Me

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