[Personal] After battling acne since I was 10, seeing countless derms and doctors, there are many things I wish they would have told me

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While I can say I'm finally reaching a point in my skincare journey where I have developed an understanding of my skin's needs (largely thanks to this sub!), I can't help but be frustrated at my sources of information growing up. There are countless products that had been prescribed to me growing up that did not help me or even made my skin worse, but I'm now learning that the problem has mostly been my way of using these products.I wish they had told me that some products take a long time to take effect, or that moisturizing was a crucial step in caring for my face (as someone with oily skin, this always seemed to be the enemy!). I can think of times where I walked around school looking like a scaly lizard because of Benza Clin, thinking that even this looked better because it obscured the acne. I wish I was told that some products make your skin worse before they start helping. I have quit so many treatments because of what could simply have amounted to purging. And because nothing seemed to work, I developed this idea that I had some kind of rare skin type that was impossible to treat, making me desperate to seek out "unconventional" or "secret" methods.What are things you wish your doctors or derms told you about skincare?
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