Psoriasis Isn’t Forever

It’s a hard time discovering your psoriasis for the first time. After finding one lesion on your body you’ve probably gone onto the internet and found that classic statement, "psoriasis is with you for life." Let me tell you now that this is not true. It’s not even remotely true. Psoriasis comes and goes until you’ve manifested a bulletproof method to get rid of it. This bulletproof method takes time, practice, repetition and is unique to everyone. What works for me may not work for you but the most important factor (what you tell yourself every day) is vital in getting rid of your psoriasis, and I will be talking about the role of the mind in great detail.

It’s easier said than done, I know, but when you do discover your psoriasis, try not to worry about it. Worrying increases the severity of the psoriasis because it’s a physical condition that is manifested and controlled by your mind.

It’s best to go about your day to day life without making any changes. Psoriasis feeds off of isolation so don’t go into hiding. Isolation makes it worse and I know that from personal experience. If you allow psoriasis to control your life it will, so try not to look at it all the time/ revolve your day around it and it will forget about you like you’ve forgotten about it.

During the first outbreak of my psoriasis, I went inwards. I isolated myself from my friends and lost them because of it. It’s important to share what’s going on with the people in your life at that current moment. Don’t let the psoriasis take ahold of you and control your life. Saying this, isolating myself did give me the time and space to create my bulletproof method, but it did ruin my social life. Having a social life is a key part of healthy functioning, especially during times of pain and sadness. The importance of finding a balance between alone time and social time is high. Now I know what works and what doesn’t I’m confident that I will be saying goodbye to psoriasis for good this time.

Giving yourself a time limit is dangerous. Saying this time next month the psoriasis will be gone is a step in the wrong direction. Good things take time and everyone’s psoriasis is different in terms of its type and severity. The reason I’m against time limits is because when that time comes and the psoriasis is still there, you will be beating yourself up about it. You will tell yourself that your methods aren’t working and that is dangerous because your methods are working—they’re just taking time to show physically. Positivity is the key. Relax and tell yourself “every day in every way I am getting better and better.”

It’s also good to have a brief recap on your life so far and your current situation. Psoriasis is caused by stress, so have a think about what has been causing stress in your life. Try not to put too much pressure on yourself to find the root cause of your psoriasis because there may not be a root cause. By this, I mean that there could be a combination of stress-producing factors causing your psoriasis. It could also be down to the way you handle day-to-day mundane tasks.

For me, many stress causing factors combined together to give me my psoriasis. So have a little think about your career, your family, your friends, and where your life is heading. These are questions we should be asking ourselves anyway but sometimes it takes something like psoriasis to make you stop in your tracks and question everything.

It may seem like it now but psoriasis isn’t all that bad. Like anything, it can be turned into a positive. Psoriasis is a physical manifestation of stress and without it, I might never have realised how much stress I was putting myself under. It’s hard to know what’s going on in the inside until a physical manifestion of that stress comes into fruitition. So take psoriasis as a learning curve and a lesson because it won’t be with you forever.

Psoriasis has the power to change your life for the better.