Beauty Tips For Body Care
I don't know if I have entered the correct tag but this has been something I have been dealing with for a long time and I just want to get it off my chest and ask for advice at the same time.I'm a 18 year old female and I have been dealing with acne for the past almost 7 years of my life. It started with small bumps on my forehead when I was 12 and then progressed to pimples on my cheeks and all over my face in general as I got older and school became more stressful. Recently I'm at the most stressful point of my life and my previous acne which was usually limited to just pimples became painful and deep cystic acne and because of that my self esteem really took a toll.I am fine with dealing acne on my own as I have been dealing with it for years. But since 12 the comments I have been getting from my parents have become worse and worse to a point where not a day passes where they don't make a remark about my face which to them comes off as just a comment but to me has been chipping away my already minuscule self esteem. What pisses me off is that they give 'advice' like "you should wash your face twice with water everyday and your skin will get better" when they have never experienced anything more than an occasional breakout all their life. Most of the time I get frustrated and return to my room to apply layers of moisturisers, sleeping with hydrating masks, slathering the oil and trying everything I can to keep the acne down. To make things worse, when my mom especially sees that I'm applying moisturisers she criticises me saying that what I'm doing is making my skin worse and that I should follow her advice and only wash my face with water twice a day etc. She also spews her bullshit assumptions about me not washing off my makeup before going to sleep (which I never ever do) or not washing my face twice a day (which I don't do because it's drying) as her counter arguments when the topic of my skin comes up, and I have no way of convincing her otherwise because she just refuses to believe whatever I say.Recently I went to the dermatologist (from my own money, not from her wallet) after much persuasion from my friend, and the dermatologist prescribed some antibiotics, clindamycin and topical tretinoin for two months. I'm thinking of going on isotretinoin the next time I go to the dermatologist again, but where I live I have to get my parent's signature for isotretinoin as I am under 21. I brought it up today during dinner and I got the usual "just wash your face with water twice a day, trust me it will clear up, I'm your mother" bullshit and initially I tried to reason with her, saying I'll get the doctor to explain to her why it's not going to work and why isotretinoin is good for me (she is mostly scared of the side effect regarding babies but I'm not even thinking of getting pregnant). She refused and said I should just listen to her advice, which riled me up because she is implying that her advice would help more than a dermatologist's. I got pissed and stormed off and it triggered me to write this after putting it off for a long time thinking it would just blow over one day.I'm stuck and very frustrated, I don't know what to do. I'm sorry if this post isn't proper but I could really use some advicetldr: my mom has never experienced acne a day in her life, thinks washing with water twice a day will cure acne and does not want to give the dermatologist a chance
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