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Acne information and Tips

Acne is one of the most prevalent physical skin conditions among both teens and adults. There are many different types, and treatments have been developed to care for each.  Physical appearance isn't the only thing it effects.  What happens when a person suffering from the condition is affected psychologically, and may shy away from attending social events with friends or colleagues because of how it makes them feel?

In today's society, appearance has become the center point for all social decisions. How we look has become more important in the eyes of many than who we are.  This is placing great pressure on teens, and continues to affect them as they grow to be adults. Many people feel it important to conform to what is considered "the norm", or at least to their perception of it. So what happens when a person suffers from a physically altering condition such as acne? 

This is a problem especially in teens because they are still developing a strong sense of who they are, and what happens to them can effect who they turn out to be.  It does not stop there.  Many adults feel the same psychological effects of this condition, and say it makes them feel ugly and undesirable in appearance. Another factor that may play a role in self-esteem, especially in teens, is the misconception that it is caused by having unclean skin. While this isn't true, it could cause sufferers to become more anxious about how others view them, which can cause self-esteem to drop. 

The first step in fighting this condition is learning about it and knowing more about the reasons and causes for it in teens and adults,
knowing your enemy is the first step to beating him, we have tried to gather as much information for you to use, we hope you make the most of it. good luck!

The Acne "King" - From Danni, S.F.

When I was younger, more specifically a teenager, I was known as Acne King. And not without reason! With a visage that had scores of both black heads and white heads, I was a walking talking running advertisement for it. If the scorn of my peers (especially the girls) was one thing, the impossibility of removing the ugly spots I had was another thing altogether.

The general myths about it didn’t help. My family members firmly believed that this condition was a result of poor (or more specifically, junk) diet. While it was true that I enjoyed the frequent dose of junk food that the neighborhood fast food joints dished out, I wasn’t too sure that eating out was the cause of my acne. I mean, a number of my friends ate out with me, and what’s more, ate junk food even more frequently than I did. But they hardly had any of it at all. Something had to be wrong with the popular belief right? I had seen the myth being busted right before my eyes. Another associated myth was about chocolate. And since I loved chocolate in any form or shape, I would have found giving it up, even at the risk of remaining acne king, an abhorrent idea. But having read up and followed news and medical reports on the subject, I discovered to me relief that chocolate consumption had nothing whatsoever to do with acne.

My peers were not much of a help wither. Most of my friends, hinted with obvious sarcasm, that my advertisement face was a result of my frequent and constant masturbation. For a while, I believed this. Hey! Which hot-blooded, teenage male doesn’t indulge in masturbation at that point in life? But then again, observations told me that this too was an urban myth. For if my spots and scars were linked to my masturbation, was I to conclude that my male friends who had none at all did not masturbate? I would have more easily believed that they were aliens! So, that was another myth busted.

Another myth that I did believe, and which sounded genuine and even scientific at that time, related to the assumption that acne was a result of dirt
accumulation on the pores of my face. I never stopped to consider that if that was the case, why wasn’t the skin on my arms and legs, which were more in contact with dirt and grime than any other part of my body, riddled with acne? In any case, I spent several days, weeks and months assiduously washing my face with all kinds of soaps and anti acne creams in a bid to eradicate acne. To no effect. Finally, I also resorted to a fatalistic attitude and concluded that the more I stressed myself out thinking about my acne, the more they would continue to remain. It was at that point that I gave up bothering about my acne filled face. And guess what? A couple of years later, as I slowly grew out of my adolescence, it disappeared on its own! Although there are still a few tell tale scars of my acne king days, my face is clear and radiant today!