Emotional support and coping techniques
This topic is a place to express your feelings about having psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis and offer support to others. Here you can share your coping skills or discuss your specific challenges. Discussions of conventional medical treatments (such as antidepressants and talk therapy) for clinical depression are welcome on this topic. However, please use the complementary and alternative topic to talk about nontraditional approaches, such as herbal remedies.
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What Are You Thankful For?
- By Mandymuff · New reply 5:10 pm
- 28 replies
- THIS IS A "POSITIVE ONLY ZONE"....... Hi Everyone We do a good, and necessary job on here, of talking about our pain, our meds, and our concerns. The freedom to do that is so very important for us. However ...
Julie Andrews on Steroids (You are in this too!)
- By Quest4Cure · New reply 2:00 pm
- 16 replies
- A few days back, somebody added a Talk Psoriasis Discussion entitled: "What Makes You Happy?" I thought about some things I enjoy, and added a couple photos. (A picture's worth a 1,000 words, right ...
Thoughts***
- By PianoFan66 · Posted May 21, 2013
- 0 replies
- Hi all: I am grateful for the chance to share and encourage. I have Psoriatic Arthritis in neck. Range of motion is horrible. I have some psorisis on knees and that is about it. As for support, beyond ...
Cover P with tights/pantyhose? help!! wedding
- By sarah12345 · New reply May 20, 2013
- 16 replies
- Im going to my uncles wedding this weekend and I have a dress buuutttttt it ends at my thighs... My legs still have P on them, especially on my knees (knees are most red) But its not really flaky any ...
How does our diet affect us
- By Jack2745 · New reply May 20, 2013
- 39 replies
- We have gotten off topic in another thread. Several of us are talking food, diet and sugar. How does food and things affect you and your P? See how we got here ...
How does our diet, stress and the weather affect us
- By Jack2745 · New reply May 20, 2013
- 3 replies
- Please join us here as we talk about how these things affect our daily lives ...
I am afraid to live now that I have this disease.
- By soldemivida · New reply May 14, 2013
- 14 replies
- Hi everyone, I just joined this community- about two minutes ago. I feel pretty narcissistic, coming onto a webpage- thinking someone should take the time to read my story, and should take the time to ...
Need to talk/ vent
- By tink3473 · New reply May 11, 2013
- 25 replies
- I am so sick and tired of all the freaking shots the humira shots and now the b12 shots 5 the first week 1 every week for 4 weeks and then 1 a month for the rest of my life if I want to be able to move ...
HELP WITH NAIL LIFTING
- By Sinergy · New reply May 7, 2013
- 18 replies
- Does any other with pp have trouble with finger and toe nails separating from the nail bed? ill try my best to describe what it looks and feels like! after a bit of time that my hands and feet are in ...
What Do We Know About Fibromyalgia?
- By Mandymuff · New reply May 5, 2013
- 11 replies
- Do you have it? What is the worst part of the disease for you? Believe it or not, there was a time, not many years ago, where most doctors laughed at fibromyalgia, and said it was not an actually illness ...
They dont understand
- By KayFallon · New reply May 5, 2013
- 29 replies
- Most healthy people don't realize how many normal, everyday things a person living with chronic illness has had to give up. Most healthy people don't understand how much loss a chronically ill person ...
Maybe You Should Not Read This......
- By Mandymuff · New reply May 4, 2013
- 36 replies
- Why is it that psoriasis sufferers feel they must hide their illness from others? This is a question which haunts me. I see so many lovely young people on here, people who have years and years of good ...
Time For Some Thought!
- By Mandymuff · New reply May 4, 2013
- 12 replies
- This following piece arrived in my e-mail this morning, and it could have been written by anyone of my age group, but I thought it just might provide inspiration to any age group, to give your very best ...
Want the scales to go away and the inflammation on my hands to go away
- By CreativeClutter · New reply April 29, 2013
- 15 replies
- I am having a bad flare this week. I try to heal my psoriasis in a holistic way, but am working on that, and am not completely successful, but I don't want to give up. This week I am having a flare on ...
What methods do you use to relax?
- By junebug44 · New reply April 29, 2013
- 18 replies
- Hi everyone, I wanted to know if any of you have some good suggestions on how to relax. I have some very stressful things going on right now (not including the psoriasis) and I'm finding it difficult ...
Dating woes
- By cellgirl · New reply April 25, 2013
- 8 replies
- I'm new to this site and new to reaching out to people. I have been single for some time now and think I'm ready to get back into the dating scene. My psoriasis has always been a source of anxiety and ...
Shaving?
- By Sadwiththis38 · New reply April 24, 2013
- 21 replies
- So my psoriasis is horrible on my legs, but I needed to shave. Needless to say I shaved many of my spots which bled like crazy. How does everyone cope with shaving? I can't not...but afraid now I'll have ...
NEWBIE: Psoriasis & Depression in NC
- By kmsgameboy · New reply April 24, 2013
- 35 replies
- Hello everyone. Happy Sunday! My name is kmsgameboy but you can call me Jayson. I just joined the community but was diagnosed with psoriasis at least 6 years ago. I have a long history of depression and ...
I want to tell my friends but...
- By sarah12345 · New reply April 20, 2013
- 7 replies
- I reeeaalllllyyy want to tell my friends about my skin and be able to talk about it but i just hate the idea of people knowing... (btw im in high school) Cause ive been hiding my skin since elementary/middle ...
Laughter.....So Good For The Soul
- By Mandymuff · New reply April 16, 2013
- 8 replies
- If you have not laughed in awhile........this ought to do it! WHY GOD MADE MOMS Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions: Why did God make mothers? 1. She's the only one who ...
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