In the past there hasn’t been a lot of research into the relationship between rosacea and mental health. Many rosacea sufferers know that there is a strong relationship between their symptoms and how they feel about themselves. This abstract mentions some research comparing rosacea sufferers with people without any facial lesions. They found that the rosacea sufferers had several psychological problems not found in non-rosacea sufferers.
Do you related to having difficulty in everyday life, have a generally poor health perception, feel high levels of anxiety and depression, feel like you have poor social support or social integration ? Well then you are not alone. It might even be claimed that these feelings are normal for rosacea sufferers.
Do you have any suggestions for how you cope with the anxiety and general negative feelings of rosacea ? Leave a comment below, or check out the Psychological Aspects support section.
Psychosocial impact of rosacea, [Article in Polish], Chodkiewicz J, Salamon M, Miniszewska J, Woźniacka A.
Rosacea is a common skin disease. Because of its recurrent character, frequent unsatisfying results of treatment and a cosmetic problem, the skin lesions cause negative patients’ psychosocial functioning. The purpose of this study was to evaluate life satisfaction, social support, general health, anxiety and depression level in people with rosacea. An attempt to select conditions which determine the life satisfaction in these patients was also made. 40 people with rosacea and 40 people with no skin lesions were the subjects of the study. It was demonstrated that in comparison to the control group, patients with rosacea are less satisfied with their lives, subjectively feel that they receive poor social support, develop great intensity of symptoms, have difficulty in functioning in everyday life, worse general health perception, along with a higher level of anxiety and depression. Level of anxiety and depression as well as social integration proved to be the predictors of life satisfaction.
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Hi everyone,
I suffer from rosacea. I am and always have suffered from depression. I never even thought that depression could affect the Rosacea condition. But I guess it makes sense, depression has to affect the body. It has to manifest itself in some way. I have never been happy in life or with my life and it has really affected people around me and my career. Its a very lonely existance. I would love to be a part of a support group or anyone can email me and we could chat.
Phil
Hi Phil,
You might like to try the Psychological Aspects section in the community site.
http://rosacea-support.org/community/viewforum.php?f=23 as this is specially for people who want to talk about these sorts of issues - which are quite important for rosacea sufferers.
Looking after your mental health is important so do try to see what support you can find around you.
davidp.
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