Sunday, 23 December 2018

[personal] How do you deal with acne depression?

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I don’t mean to self-diagnose myself with depression and I’m sorry if I’m not using the right term, but I just don’t know how to express this. Basically how low and down you feel because of your acne. I’m facing the worst skin of my life, been having acne since I was 9 (I’m 18 now), and right now it’s extremely bad and my skin is so bumpy and nothing seems to work. It gets worse when your family members don’t listen to you when you’re talking but they just want to inspect your face. Strangers, especially the elderly, always comment on it and try to give unsolicited advice. And somehow everything you do, from the food you eat to the products you use, or the lack of product you use - that’s the reason why your face is like that. Or when people around you tell you to wash your face and ask you why your face is like that. That’s what people like to blame it on. It’s not like anything you say can magically change my face and it hurts so bad. I’m the type that loves to go out and socialise, but I feel like I’m putting my life on hold. I can’t meet guys because I’m too anxious for dates. I am reluctant to go for interviews and out with friends because of my face. I just wish there was something I could do to make my pimply skin disappear. I hate looking at reflective surfaces to the extent that I increase the brightness of my phone when I’m using it because I don’t wanna see my uneven and horrible skin. I look down everytime I see a mirror in a brightly-lit store. I hate bad lighting, I always cringe and feel everyone’s staring at how bad it is. I cry myself to sleep everyday thinking about my ugly skin. I feel so ugly everyday, I wanna feel pretty. Right now I’m on tretinoin for almost a month and my skin looks worse, hopefully its purging. I know I should probably go see a therapist, but I really can’t afford it at all. How do you guys deal with acne depression, and how do you get out of it? Thank you.
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