My Journey to halt/end my psoriasis

[Sheila]

Scratch and pick. Scratch and bleed. Stop the bleeding. Put on cream. Put on ice on itchiness areas. Repeat. I AM GOING FREAKIN NUTS!  I wonder if it is me being psychosomatic in some way. 

I know that this is my journey, but I intend to make it not just about the medication and progress but my emotional journey. If I am overstepping my boundaries here, plz have an admin let me knowI will stop.

Cheers

Wintrman

Hi Wintrman,

The itching is terrible, I know partly by experience, and maybe indeed your mind is doing something to yourself. That is a good suggestion. Maybe it could make sense to have some psycho training on how to cope with it. I don’t really know if that exists, but who knows. It makes sense to research that. It is called Psychodermatology.
In an interview on a Dutch site the psychologist says: "The psychologist checks what is going on. Does the patient have feelings of depression, anxiety, stigma or difficulty accepting the condition? Or does someone have a lot of trouble dealing with itching? For example, anyone who thinks' this itching is driving me completely crazy and it will never end 'can learn to deal with it more relaxed by thinking' I now have itching, but that could be different in an hour and I will have some ointment lubricate or deal with it in another way. '"
Perhaps you can find something like that in your environment.

A friend of mine, former military, sometimes says: Pain is an emotion and emotions are suppressable.
Of course that is a joke, but there may be a bit of common sense underlying to that.

If you are overstepping your boundaries, we will stop you..    But for now we understand your psychological stress and need to throw it off you.
I know you don’t like it, but you could, just for a short bit of relief, try some Enstilar foam, it seems to be very good, and because of the foam you need less. And over here I also hear good words about Sorion cream, do you know that?

Cheers,
Caroline

I will talk to my pharmacist about both those things.  See what hee has to say about it. It might be my saving grace. This itching is most distracting. And when I scratch... OMG the scales I leave behind. Yesterday I was having a meeting with my boss. His chairs in his office were black so when I sat there, I left behind a massive amount of dead skin and I wasn't even scratching. I had leaned forward over his desk and when I sat back I had left behind a pile of dead skin. I quickly swept it off his desk., much to my embarrassment. I could feel the heat rise in my face. Being that I am bald, I must have looked like a tomato with ears.

Anyways. Ttyl.
Wintrman