Acne is a misery to the sufferers and is a huge concern, which cannot be underestimated.
Psychological and Social Impacts of Acne must be handled rapidly especially on teenager because it affects adolescents at a time when they are developing their personalities.
In this period social acceptance is very important.
Physical appearance and attractiveness are decisive to one's social interactions, which is very unfortunate.
How worse can it be? The answer is very bad.
Some may not realise that they are on their way to developing bad personality which will follow them for life.
For example, How worse can it be when sufferers only avoid looking themselves in the mirror because they hates their appearance resulting from the acne they suffer? It won't be very bad, well, if you notice and think carefully.
They cannot even face themselves, how can they face the world? How will it be bad for the long term, in the future? One could lack of communication skill, low self-esteem, low self-confidence,and probably anger.
Let's take the journey point by point.
- Embarrassment can result in avoiding eye contact, which translates to decreased self-esteem.
- Male tend to grow long hair to cover their appearance while female try to wear heavy make-up to cover their face without knowing that make-up can worsen acne or do it anyway even though they know, they have no confidence in themselves.
- Taunts from other teenagers might make situation worse, sufferers could choose to stay at home all the time.
Feeling frustrated and depressed could lead to even worse state of mind.
- Relationship with the opposite sex might come to dead end.
- Social phobia could develop because the fear resulting from negative response from others.
- one could be preoccupied by picking at his/her acne, which would definitely lead to eternal acne scarring.
More or less acne influences education as well as work: - Refusal to go to school might lead to future unemployment.
- Risking their jobs by being absent from work.
- lack of self-confidence could boost the chance of sufferers' successful job applications.
All human beings dream to have good appearance.
However acne has spoiled this dreams of the sufferes'.
Clearing up the acne would relieve the source of social disturbance, emotionaland psychological impacts on acne patients.
Many people never think that something can be done in order to achieve a good appearance or they are just giving up because of disappointment of not working products.
Diet and Hygiene are two clearing up acne myths, which are considered to be true.
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