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Have you ever asked a professional for advice and been deeply disappointed by the answer? I asked Naturopath Maya Harish for her top piece of advice for people healing from...

I often ask myself, if I could go back in the past what would I tell my 12-year-old self? Well, the opportunity to speak to my past-self has in some ways...

At the moment I feel like I am walking on the shards of my broken heart. I have never known grief like this before. Just over a week ago, my...

Running my fingers over my skin and I feel a bump. Wait. Stop. It cannot be. I have never had a spot of psoriasis on my hands, not one. This...

“I’ve become the person I always hated, but I’m happier” –Woody Allen I work for a company that delivers home health equipment to people’s homes. Every day I go into...

I have guttate psoriasis which sometimes can develop into plaque when the guttate gets so severe that all the tiny patches join together into larger plaques. I first flared age...

Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune condition. Autoimmune conditions are ones that are caused by an abnormal functioning of the immune system. With psoriasis, the inflammation in a person’s body causes...

It’s been a weird day today. I’m at home, sick with some dastardly cold virus. It’s been one of those days where Netflix has to prompt “are you still watching?”...

Did you know your general practitioner (GP) can do a whole range of useful things for you when you have psoriasis? I didn't. I view mine as the gatekeeper between...

First off-I apologize in advance for making your poor scalps itch even more than normal by the sheer mention of lice. My kid’s school had a lice outbreak recently. Just...

We all do it, well most of us anyway, and yet we struggle to talk about it and we struggle to ask the questions we most need to ask. While...

You know that old expression about being “house poor”? It means that the majority of your income goes to your living expenses. Well, I have determined that I have become...

Our lives were forever changed when my son was diagnosed at age 4 with psoriasis, then again at age 5 with juvenile psoriatic arthritis. And then, three years later, I...

I have had psoriasis for 30 years, and during this time there have been a few things that have come up repeatedly that I wish more people knew. People living...

I marvel at the power and force of nature. Living in California each day there is the potential for landscape leveling earthquakes such as the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake...

Psoriasis can often feel like a lonely disease if you don't know others who live with it. It can be challenging when friends and family members who don't have the...

Research states African Americans and other people of color are less likely to have psoriasis, but I often wonder is it true? Are we less likely to have the condition...

Psoriatic disease is two-faced. There is one side of it that is very visible - the flaking, cracking, dry plaques of the skin or the red, inflamed, and swollen fingers and...

This question has been presented to me on numerous occasions and I have reluctantly put it in the back of my mind. This is a subject or for better terminology...

This is the Summer 2018 edition of your community recommendations! We keep track of the products and treatments recommended by you and summarize them for other community members to try...