Ah, acne how can I forget what it did to me, how it scarred my teenage life. A dreadful facial disorder that has the ability to destroy a person’s life causing a depression of sorts depending on the kind of acne he or she has. First let me just explain what acne is in general. Then I will tell you how I was affected and what I did to improve my facial situation. Trust me it was hard living with this disease and I am sure there are millions of teenagers going through the same hardships that I’ve been through.

The word ‘Acne’ is given to or is termed for various facial ailments such as clogged pores, lumps on the skin, blackheads and whiteheads, pimples and cysts that can transpire on the face, chest, neck, back and the shoulders. The disease really has no age restriction; adults in their 20’s to people from the age group of 35 to 40 years can also get affected with acne. Teenagers are affected the worst; however acne is not life threatening though it can be distressing and can cause severe scarring on the face depending on whether the disease is controllable or very rigorous because even having minor acne on the face could lead to permanent disfigurement.

People between the ages of twelve and eighteen are affected 100% of the time suffering from irregular and sporadic facial disorders such as blackheads, whiteheads and pimples regardless of where they are from, their race or ethnicity.

For me going to school or even going for a walk in the park with someone was like task; it was more like a mission. Not that I hated studies or anything I just hated myself or rather I hated the way my face looked. I used to get depressed and frustrated because of the way people looked at me which was with disgust and utter unpleasantness. It was difficult making friends in my situation as because of my facial condition I seldom used to hang out with any one.  It was at the age of 15 that I was cursed with facial acne and became a walking bull’s eye for my classmates who used to constantly tease me till I cried. Life was tough. I took comfort or more precisely, refuge, in the thought that this was just a phase in life that would vanish eventually as I got older or so I thought.

As time went by gradually it became more and more apparent that this problem was to become even worse. Everyday was a test for me; kids began to make even more outrageous jokes about me. Girls never even acknowledged my presence it was as if I was a ghost. Apart from that, my facial skin acne was becoming more severe and my face began to scar. I started becoming more depressed getting out of my house only for school and nothing else. I began to throw temper tantrums, life was ugly. I was getting desperate and in my desperation I started purchasing off the shelf products and wasting money on any kind of acne treatment. But nothing happened, nothing took effect. I went to a general physician in my quest to finding a solution for this curse but what he said was very upsetting to hear. He said that acne affects every person of my age and that it will gradually just fade away after my teenage life.

The market is full of so called “cures of acne”, but if you go to a qualified dermatologist he would only say what others say, and that is, there is no cure for acne. Since no cure exists what I suggest, and what I did was try to prevent my acne from getting worst to ugly and in my experience there were two products really helped me control my acne the first one is (Benzoyl peroxide) and the other one is a facial cleanser. Both are non prescription acne relieving products that have helped a lot. I hope my information helps all of you suffering from any sort of acne.