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[Reds]

Ok, so heres my story I guess. Im now 19 years old, and well my childhood has been rocky to say the least. I grew up in Sunny California for a majority of my life until I was maybe 14 years old. Due to some unfortunate family problems we were forced to move up to Canada. Doing a 24 hour drive in a U-Hual truck with only my mother driving and two brothers and a cat isnt the easiest thing in the world. But we made it. When we got here I couldnt have been anymore unhappy, I mean I was 14, about to enter my first year of High School, and my family just uproots me?!?! I mean I understand it had to be done, but I dont know if I will ever be able to forgive my parents for that. I left all my friends, my school, everything. These last 5 years have been rather hard. Coming to a new place, with what I just went through was not a good thing. I was to afraid of going to a new school here that I begged and begged my parents to let me do my schooling at home. BIG MISTAKE. I kind of isolated myself from the world. Even though I played Hockey, and still do. I never tried to get close with anybody, or make friends. This is where the Acne comes in. My skin was perfect up until maybe 10 months ago. Probably had only maybe two pimples in my life until that point. I am really having a hard time, as with most people, dealing with this. I started with retin, which did not work, all it did was make my face red as well as more acne. I am currently on accutane, and in the 4th month. I guess I took this drug with unrealistic expectations, but I expected my face to be perfect at this point. That it is not. Has it improved, of course. I am probably close to acne free actually. The problem is the redness, redmarks, and Im not sure what scarring I do have. Im just afriad that I will have to deal with this the rest of my life, that thought just haunts me. Im sorry for the rather long post, but I am kind of sad at the moment, and not sure where my life is headed. I have applied to colleges in the states, and so deperatly want to be accepted to a few. But who knows if that will happen. Anyways again Im sorry for the long post, thanks for reading.

[Polka]

whats up.

Dont apologise for making a thread like this, we all understand. Anyway, 'creep' officially holds the longest thread championship title.

I'm around the same age as you so I can understand your problems to a degree.

Do not worry, for red marks really do fade away. Focus on the positives, you say you are virtually acne-free. Thats a good thing.

Your problem in my eyes is your low self esteem, confidence, no doubt not helped by home schooling. With your interests in mind, try to join some social groups. Do you have anyone to confide in?

Your problems will haunt you if you let it. I mean if you do nothing about it. THats what I did throughout my teens. This year, I'm thinking 'screw it, lets sort this mess out'. It will take a lot of work, no1 said it would be easy.

hope you feel better, and please pm me if you ever want to chat

Byz