Healing Psoriasis...

[MissTendana]

(Haha, sorry for the wall of text...)

Ugh...psoriasis sucks. I've had it for years (since I was what, 13? I'm 21 now). It popped up one day on my right shin, and no one knew what it was. After it didn't go away for a long while, I went to the dermatologist, and I was told that it looked like basal cell cancer - though they soon determined the true diagnosis from a big chunk of skin they scooped out of my leg (ow ;_;).

Okay, psoriasis, no big deal, right? I did all I could to ignore it, but it was there through my entire teenagehood, growing to a patch about 3.5 inches across. I tried all kinds of creams and cures, but to no avail; I tried coal tar jelly, and it just made it look wet and God-awful. Putting make-up on it only made it more obvious, so I just ignored it. Wearing skirts all the time (I was raised Pentecostal) made it kind of difficult, but I managed.

Then, all of the sudden, the spots were everywhere. They appeared all in my scalp (and I have long, black hair, blargh), a couple on my chest, a few on my arms, a patch on the bottom of my foot (WTF!), and I think I counted about fifty different spots on my legs alone. They kept coming, and wouldn't go away. I grew to hate these spots, and was obscenely disgusted by them. I would scrub them with a pumice stone 'til they were flat and bleeding (only to come back even more prominent the next day), and a few times I even grabbed a Sharpie and X'd them all - every one of 'em - out. By this time I had tried about a million different methods; unfortunately, the more effective a treatment is, the more toxic it is, and I wasn't willing to subject myself to chemotherapy just yet.

It was also at this time that I began getting into more natural cures and the metaphysical. One day, I stumbled upon a piece of information that stopped me dead in my tracks. On the subject of skin conditions and irritations, it read (and boy howdy, I'm paraphrasing), a lot of it is caused by psychological reasons. "What - or who - is getting under your skin?" it asked.

That's when it hit me. Yes! There was, indeed, something in my life that had shown up right before my psoriasis hit. It was totally "getting under my skin," and it was killing me. Over the course of a few months, I mulled this over and came to terms with this part of my life - and, coincidentally enough, this is the same time that my psoriasis started fading away. HOLY GOD FINALLY AFTER PUTTING UP WITH THEM FOR YEARS THEY FINALLY WENT AWAY. The patches of skin are still light, and there's one more tiny spot left below one knee, but that's it. That's all.

Phew! Okay, that was a lot, but I was trying to give you guys a bit of perspective. As we all know here, the physical body's symptoms trickle down from everything else above it, and I thought this was a prime example. If there's anyone else out there with this crap - or any other skin condition, a crazy rash, weird acne, whatever - try to look at it from a higher standpoint. You may be surprised at what you learn.

[Xanth]

My father suffered from Psoriasis.
The cure... a healthy dose of sunlight.

Yup!  Good ol'fashion suntanning.
Cleared him right up... in the summer, that is. 

~Ryan