Re: My ACNE story

I know how you feel buddyyy I'm like 28 now, still getting acne, been on the dermatology waiting list for 10 months with the NHS, it's ridiculous. It is depressing. There's so much I want to be doing right now, that I simply don't have the confidence to do because of acne. I work a crappy job part-time because I don't want to go to job interviews. If I go out, I'm constantly conscious of my skin. And to make it worse, I never see anyone else with acne. No-one. Apparently it "affects the majority of people at some point in their life," but these people must all live on some island somewhere, because I don't see them. Anyway, I've more or less lost my 20s to acne, and I've made a sort of internal pact that if it still persists at 30, I'll seriously start thinking about killing myself. It sounds extreme, but people simply don't appreciate the psychological effect this condition has on you. It makes you feel disgusting, you don't want to be near people, or be looked at, it's awful. The worst thing is, you simply can't tell how long it'll go on for. If I knew "in X number of years it'll be gone," I could deal with that, but not knowing is torture. I hate it. It's ruined my life.
The end.