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Horrible Acne
Hi All.
I suffer from acne, I'm 19. Sometimes I don't have it so much, but I always seem to get it very badly on my chin. I also have lots of blackheads there. I first started with my bad acne when I was about 12 (I first got blackheads in my ears when I was about 9). I used to get 1 or 2 really big pimples on my chin. I'm a hygienic person and I always have been, I wash my hands with hot water and anti-bacterial liquid every time after the toilet and I wash every day. I don't wash my hands any other time unless my hands have dirt or something on them. (Guess I'm not that hygienic) This could be contributing to my acne I guess. Mum got me some creams when I was much younger and they did help, but when we get creams now they are completely useless. My Doctor gave me some gel, but all it did was dry it out and didn't help much. I don't wash my face and I never wear make-up (I don't go out a lot). I used to wash my face with Neutrogena and other brands, but some irritated my skin and the others did no help to my skin whatsoever. One day Mum got me Berocca (A fizzy drink with vitamins) and it cleared my skin up about 99.9%, I was shocked! Then after a month or 2, it stopped working. I still take Berocca to help, but it doesn't seem to work anymore. I also have greasy hair and a fringe over the acne on my forehead. I could cut it, but I've ALWAYS had a fringe. I look ugly without it, It doesn't suit me. People I have talked to about my acne say it's my fringe causing the trouble and hair going over my face. But I cut my hair short at the beginning of the year, it used to be much longer, but I still have it?! I also wash my hair every day, I never condition my fringe as it makes it too greasy. I do suffer from very bad greasy hair and I have to wash it every day. I also have eczema in my ears, on my forehead, sores in my hair and sometimes in my eyebrows. (not sure how I still get acne on my forehead when I have dry eczema there). I mainly get a couple sores around my forehead and a bunch of them across my chin.
My Step-Dad is not a hygienic person. He doesn't wash his hands after the toilet at all and hardly bathes. Maybe once a week, but that's if Mum FORCES him to. She bathes him because he doesn't clean himself properly (he doesn't wash with soap, just sits in water and gets out). He has gone longer without a bath, nearly 2 weeks. Could this be contributing to my acne? As I'm touching surfaces he has touched? Sometimes he is hard to be around because he smells so bad, sometimes if he leaves a room he leaves an unclean smell he has just been.. I don't really like being areas he has been, sometimes he leaves bloody towels from his shaving in the bathroom and hangs them back up.
It has been a humiliation for me for years. At school the teacher made fun of my acne and kids did too, sometimes I just wanted to not go to school as the acne was so LARGE. When my Grandma was still alive she commented on it and really humiliated me. I also get it on forehead and back, I have for about 2 years since I moved from where I lived with my Mum 2 years ago. When I lived alone for a while last year it wasn't on my back, I still got it on chin but it wasn't as bad. I think the environment I'm in is contributing to it. My family and I live in a dusty place and cramped environment. I'm an 'inside' person; I'm into my computers, video games and reading indoors. Mum says sunshine helps my acne. I know I should go outside more, but I just don't like outside much. I hate the noisy neighbours and I don't feel comfortable sitting outside as we have neighbours so close-by (I'm very shy and social phobic).
I think my Mum bathes every few days. She used to do it more when we used to live together before she met my step-dad, but she has gotten more sick over the years and it's harder for her. I know she bathes with my step-dad sometimes to save water. There are other things about him too that are unhygienic, but I don't want to share these things. I know these things because Mum tells me.
My Mum sometimes likes to pop my pimples on my back without asking me if she walks past or she is close to me. I hate it when she does this. I used to ask her when I was younger to get my blackheads out, so I would lie down and she would squeeze them out. I don't anymore as pimples appear. So it's been months since I've asked her. (the pain from it is unbearable too because she has sharp nails). Sometimes she asks me and I say no, but she gets really REALLY angry at me and gets into a mood and won't talk to me. She used to do my eyebrows too, but she went off track and starting squeezing things off my face when I told her not to. So I stopped with that and started doing my own eyebrows with tweezers she bought me. She gets REALLY angry if I brush her off if she starts to pick my face randomly out of nowhere. Sometimes when she randomly picks my back, she will get a particular sore and it really hurts for a couple hours. I'm trying to wear clothing that covers my back, but she sometimes has put her hand down my back. She hasn't done it in a week or 2, but last night when I asked her to wash my hair (I couldn't do it as I have incredible neck and chin pain at the moment), She went and got her nails (long sharp ones) and scratched up and down my back....(yes, It hurt a LOT)
The Reason why I'm saying this now as I thought I'd ask for help. I've had it for years and copped with it, but I don't see why I should have to put up with it any longer. I'm sorry if I wrote this up with things that don't make any sense or seem pretty crazy. I'm not good with typing and sentence structure and grammar..etc.
I put this on word document and corrected all my spelling mistakes.
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Originally Posted by cathy23
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