You have been expected - and perhaps the fear - the "great day" for the week. The nature of the case is not important because it can be a first step, an important task or your birthday. You try to hide behind heavy hair or make-up. But one can not ignore the face in the mirror.
Sounds familiar? For those who suffer from acne in the world, these scenarios are already tefrequent. Even routine social interaction - a giornataufficio, a trip to the market - can be a nightmare of stress and self-hatred. However, because the "simple" of acne vulgaris, these emotions are real and widely dismissed as hypersensitivity. Clear face friends and colleagues say: "In fact it seems worse for you."
And they are probably right. But missing an important point: acne is all about how you feel, hoejere watching. Over the years, research and medical treatments have changed in maggioMa the answer to the question "how couldacne? "remained alarmingly constant: Ugly. Angry. Sporco. Depressed. These reactions are generally consistent lines, age barriers and national borders.
What is being done?
Each year millions of dollars are devoted to the study and medical treatment of acne, miljardent be given to the development and commercialization tion tion with low turnover. Relatively low, but was given to determine the psychological and social effects of the disease. Consider lto the following statement:
There is no disease that leads to more psychological trauma, poor parents and children, more general insecurity and feelings of inferiority and greater amounts of mental pain, acne is nietvulgaris.1
Produced by Zaidems Sulzberger and 1948 in an article, this statement rings true today. Despite the limited impact of acne on the patient's general health, various studies have geconcludeerd that the degree of emotional stressnatural skin significativodiscapacidad. The consequences are clear: acne worse inside. So why is it so easy for people to dismiss these feelings as vanity?
The problem of measuring deemotie.
The difficulty lies not in the endorsement of the negative effects of acne, but also to quantify them. For years, researchers have struggled to find half of the accurate measurement of this type EntICHIESTA. Scientists used to measure the psicometrica conditions of mind, but have not yet developed comocale for the psychological effects of physical conditions such as acne. And the use of power laddersr psychometric evaluation of patients with acne has been largely positive.
Why? Emotional symptoms - depression, anger, low self-esteem - are influenced by a number of variables. It is unclear whether depression is caused by acne eeuna alone or combination of factors, ranging from problems with stress at school. For now, the way best for understy psychosocial effects of acne seems surprisingly simple: Spit Char.
The powerful testimony of the patient.
Until science develops a scale, the best way for us to learn more about the emotional effects of acne are the same patients. The following quotes are taken from a study in 1995, while in San Francisco.2 In contrast drammaticot with psychometric questionnaires used in the past, patients were asked questions aperte and encourage them to respecterousin detail.
Don 't was for many years, I have looked in a mirror. I comb my hair with a silhouette on the wall the contours of my head. I have not looked into the eyes of me for years, and is not painful to do, which is a direct result of acne.
When my acne is more serious, reality has begun to explore other things, zich more aware of social norms, what is acceptable, what is attrayant. Then I started with a basAutoestima so to me more of an introvert. So I want to avoid certain situations. "Ask them, well, maybe not. She is not interested in what I feel.
Associated with a dirty, and that the hatred, why not go well at all. I inherited from my mother, and she has always said that I had exactly the same and leave. I am angry that I have inherited. My father, I VIM bad of me because I have bad skin nooithad when I was younger, so they do not understand.
My mèresqueo not know what he has done damage to me. If you eat fatty foods, you criticize. If you eat spicy food - spicy Thai food is everything - I say this because I ate spicy food, which is why I had pimples. He kept telling me how my face was ugly, and nobody will marry me if I look bad skin vane. And it is really bad.
So I wrong, if this - but if I go to the store, do not buy the sweets, but Jeet desired. I believe that in the mia mind that people see what to buy, and I think: "Oh, come here. No wonder that many sitting on your face.
From this small sample, it is easy for the big emotional impact of acne on the face. The accounts of family conflicts, social and private flexffrance is deep, as patients, the direct result of their acne.
Although he is hard the impact of this condition, the message of these statements is clear: Acne can cause profound suffering Emotiva. Of course, if you live with acne, is not new - in May, but it would be useful to know that you are not alone.
