Students with acne
By Ganjzi
@Ganjzi (53)
Philippines
April 2, 2012 4:06am CST
My face had a lot of acne when I was a high school student. I feel so bad during those years. I think I was unable to excel in our class discussions, and extracurricular activities because I did not have self confidence because of acne, it looks very bad on my face. Thank God now that I am 25 years old, I only have pimple marks on my face, I think I look more attractive today than I was ten years ago. Pimple marks on my face are not very deep. Did you also experienced this kind of teenage problem? What did you do to overcome this skin problem? I always think that if I do not have a lot of pimple when I was a high school I could be a campus crush, or a varsity player, or the valedictorian. Sometimes because of acne, we lose self confidence, when we do not have self confidence, we lose a lot of opportunities in life.
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11 responses
@closetgaara (128)
• United States
3 Apr 12
Acne is such a miserable thing. I'm 20 years old and suffer from pretty bad acne. Some days it seems as though no matter what I do, I can't get rid of the pimples and such. And even where I don't have pimples, I have black spots and areas of hyper-pigmentation. Thankfully, washing my face religiously, taking care of my skin with acne creams/serums has helped a bit. However, I still have problems and now use makeup when I'm going out to take care of covering discoloration on my face. I can't wait until I'm finally over my acne suffering like you! It's something that really makes me self-conscious and I always envy people with clear skin. Still, I'm going to really try and take care of myself the best I can and fight the annoyingness of acne.
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@Ganjzi (53)
• Philippines
3 Apr 12
I was depressed when and I feel so bad about my acne problems. I could not even go out and hang out with friends. I can remember how painful to see the girl that I love so much slip away, I did not even try to tell her that I love her, I am afraid because she is too beautiful and I look awful. When you're acne problem is over, you will just smile when you realize that you survive a difficult phase of your life. It will be over soon.
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
3 Apr 12
Acne is generally part of our genes and we did suffer bad acne. My father's face looks like the moon with craters, so does his other brothers and sisters (My aunt and uncles).
However, in our time, they really took care of us. We were introduced early with the dermatologist, and our parents really spent money for our acne to be treated. If you see me today, you wouldn't believe I had acne, nobody thinks it's part of our lives because my siblings and I don't even have pimple marks.
I think you shouldn't invest on products. But rather, invest on the doctor her/himself. Do not formulate your own scheme but rather follow their advise religiously. It took us a lot of time and effort to apply all the medicines and applications every night! but it was surely worth it.
When I have kids, and when you do too, always make their confidence a priority. Do something about acne or pimples before it's worst. You can't do anything about the craters because it will take a lot of time to make them disappear. We were just lucky that our parents quickly decided to take us to the dermatologist before the break-out happened.
Further, it takes more than a clean face to help prevent acne marks. There should be proper hygiene. Therefore, now that we're older, we still invest in our personal skin care, afterall, skin care is better than all the make-up in the world.
Have a great MyLot experience ahead!
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
3 Apr 12
I have acne too and still do just not as much as I did in high school. I am getting to an age where the acne is going away.. maybe another two years. I hated acne but I grew to deal with it.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
3 Apr 12
You know, I agree. I've been trying to shake acne since puberty, and even though I'm long past it... it's still following me around. I've let my self-consciousness get in the way of a number of things. When a cyst pops up on my face, I don't want to do anything, go anywhere, or be with anybody. I feel like I've tried everything but accutane and that dermatologists never know what they're talking about when they throw creams and lotions at you.
If I'd never had acne, I imagine my life would have been turning out very differently.
@kolsti87 (521)
• United States
3 Apr 12
Man, I know exactly what you're talking about. I had terrible acne back when I was in high school. I spent so much money on facial wash products and gels and creams but nothing really worked. I was made fun of a whole lot and it really affected my confidence. Luckily, it didn't leave very many scars and now that I'm older I don't really have acne anymore. And you're right, if I had more confidence back in high school, maybe I would have gone out more and made more friends and girlfriends.
@Ganjzi (53)
• Philippines
3 Apr 12
Wow, we understand each other. I think, having acne change me a lot, it made be believe that if a girl will love me despite of my skin problem, that is pure love. Let say if a girl will love you because you look good, what if one day you become ugly? Maybe she will just leave you behind.
@sarahb411 (75)
• United States
9 Apr 12
As a teenager from the last century (lol), I had pretty bad skin. I got alot teasing in Jr. High, which subsided as the same people teased me in Jr. High, suffered the same "skin affliction" in High-school. Also, for the most part highs-schoolers are just more mature then Jr. High-schoolers. Though I still had esteem issues. BUT, as I grew out it, (also with a little help from prescription medicine) one thing I found as I grew alot older after high-school. My friends who had "perfect skin" in high school, had "older skin" as adults. "They say" there's no scientific proof that more oily skin "prevents more wrinkles" then dryer skin, but I'm just giving my personal observations.
@xemorth (70)
• Australia
3 Apr 12
Haha, I currently have acne. Not really severe, but light (I have a lot of acne scarring though). Yes, acne stunted my confidence numerous times, however I usually got over it in a couple of hours. I remember though when my acne got really bad I would panic and put all these stuff on my face (lemon, flour, ect), which would only make my face burn, lol. What really worked for me was Benzac, its like pro-active, but a $10 version. Haha.
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@srjac0902 (1169)
• Italy
2 Apr 12
From my practical experience I can say that applying curds mixed with lemon is very effective to remove acne. Applying herbal cream on the face is equally good. The teenagehood is very difficult. Sometimes the exposure to the sun in the playgound, the acidity of sweating may create the fading of the glow of the skin. Leading a pure and sober life, preserving clean thoughts in the mind and the heart makes the dace radiate. It is independent of any religion. We need to be very coll and calm in our mood. Often consciously we have work on our characte3r formation. The physical body, the moral bearing and the our psychic sobriety are closely knit together.
@guile118 (57)
• Egypt
2 Apr 12
i had many problems when i was younger and i didnt have self confidence and it caused me many problems and tried many medicines to finish this problem to get over it and i failed then i discovered the only way you can beat acne which is ignoring it ..dont think about it and forget about it and you will find by passage of time it disappears
@almond24 (1248)
• Hungary
2 Apr 12
I had acne until the age of 28 or so, probably due to messed up hormones. It got better when I switched to dairy free diet, but that didn't always work either.
I had a terrible skin for more than 10 years, and I made me very shy. I tried a lot of products and diets to get rid of them, but after a while the pimples always returned. I tried to conceal them, but it's not easy to hide that my skin is in a bad condition. They stopped me from dating too, though I know many teenagers have to deal with it.
Now my skin is much better, the pimples disappeared, but it took a very long time. I have one once in a while, but that's okay.
@GokuKid (55)
•
2 Apr 12
I never really had skin problems, but I have more of a defect in my legs at the moment, some kids pick on me calling me Peggy, I just laugh it off and I know they're just messing around if they do say something about it, but if they take it a little too far, just tell them to be quite or just plain and simple shut up, if anyone judges you from the outside then they're just stupid, no?
@bmonai87 (11)
• United States
2 Apr 12
I'm sure acne is a huge downer. I didn't really have acne but I would get breakouts from time to time. I thought that it would end when I became an adult but that's a lie. Getting one pimple can make your self esteem go down a bit so I can only imagine how it feels for your face to be covered with them.
