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Feelings On Acne
Posted by Graciemeow,
08 March 2013
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emotional emotional effects of acne acne
Sometimes I feel like I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.
After buying and trying all the over the counter creams, lotions and potions under the sun, to using topical and medicated creams to having every available anti-biotic, cutting out various food groups from my diet, self esteem plumetting to an all time low, two courses of gruelling courses of roaccutane (accutane), I feel my acne slowly returning.
I am now at an endocrinologist but i feel as though i have lost all hope.
I feel like, to an extent, I should try and keep a posotive outlook on things, which I can sometimes in an "it could always be worse" sort of way.
But its hard to feel like things can get worse when you feel so low. I feel selfish feeling like this but I hate what I see when i look in the mirror.
Do I try and accept myself the way I am, or keep returning to life-ruling, gruelling medications that take toll on the rest of my looks whilst givnig me the skin i desire?
This is taking over my life and I don't know where to turn
After buying and trying all the over the counter creams, lotions and potions under the sun, to using topical and medicated creams to having every available anti-biotic, cutting out various food groups from my diet, self esteem plumetting to an all time low, two courses of gruelling courses of roaccutane (accutane), I feel my acne slowly returning.
I am now at an endocrinologist but i feel as though i have lost all hope.
I feel like, to an extent, I should try and keep a posotive outlook on things, which I can sometimes in an "it could always be worse" sort of way.
But its hard to feel like things can get worse when you feel so low. I feel selfish feeling like this but I hate what I see when i look in the mirror.
Do I try and accept myself the way I am, or keep returning to life-ruling, gruelling medications that take toll on the rest of my looks whilst givnig me the skin i desire?
This is taking over my life and I don't know where to turn
I had a very similar thought today as I was applying my bha lotion and looking at myself in the mirror........."should i just give up, and just accept it ? ...there isnt much left to try".....and "yes ...it coud be worse".....
to be honest....this is easier said than done, and i dont think anyone is 100% able to do so....but you just have to accept yourself the way you are..., thats a sad realization, and i know it sounds harsh...but thats where i feel i am right now.