Living

Keeping up to date is one of the best things you can do in terms of managing your psoriasis. The treatment routes we follow tend to be very prescriptive, but...

We all know the saying of being a victim of circumstance, this is someone who suffers bad consequences due to situations or factors that are out of their control. I used...

I was given the amazing opportunity to participate in the Psoriasis, Atherosclerosis and Cardiometabolic disease Initiative (PACI) study at the NIH in Bethesda Maryland. PACI is a 4-year observational study...

Facial psoriasis has always been one of the worst for me. It’s the hardest to hide when you do not feel like facing the world with your skin on show...

“Depression is often anger turned inwards.” These were the words my sparkly new (and first ever) psychotherapist said to me in our first appointment, and these were the words that...

Have you heard of Step Therapy? Do you know what it means? If you have experience with psoriasis for a long enough time you will come to know it if...

Have you read "You Are A Badass" by Jen Sincero? You should, it’s an uplifting book if you are not feeling 100% pumped about yourself (unless you hate swearing in...

I recently heard that you have been diagnosed with a form of psoriasis, I am so sorry that you have become one of us who suffer with this condition. I'm...

Most of us would probably agree that there isn’t a lot about psoriasis we like. However, when pressed to find something positive, many of us will answer to the effect...

Thus far, I have experienced psoriasis in every stage of life from adolescence to adulthood. I would say the hardest time to date was my years of being a teenager...

What does that really mean to me? Does this mean I have arrived because I have a little money saved, or that I own more than one house or that...

I was talking to a lady the other day about psoriasis. She was newly diagnosed with psoriasis so she had been doing a lot of research online. We were talking...

Fine print, those rows and rows of words at the bottom of most pamphlets, promotions, contracts, sales and the like, the things we end up not reading, as we think...

Have you heard of the love tank? Does it make you want to stop reading? You shouldn’t. I learned this concept from Dr. Campbell, the author of the five love...

The famous and sometimes infamous PH scale. What it has to do with what, I am still trying to figure out properly and in true form-finding what is effective for me...

I know a small group of people who attempt to watch all the Oscar-nominated movies before the February Academy Awards air. Well, at least from the big categories! This year...

When you live with a visible disease like psoriasis there are times you will run into some interesting scenarios, some you can manage and other’s that catch you off guard...

The Dead Sea. Isn’t it every psoriasis patient’s ultimate travel destination? Many have gone for therapeutic treatment and seen significant improvement (or even total clearing) of their psoriasis. Because of...

As I write this I’m on my way to Washington D.C. for the National Psoriasis Foundation’s annual Capitol Hill Day. This short trip takes me a few days to pack...

March is the beginning of one of my favorite seasons of the year. It is also the month I dread the most for my psoriasis. This change in seasons from...