Psoriasis is a curious disease – it happens when your own immune system goes and attacks your skin in the false belief that the skin is somehow the enemy. It can be a very debilitating disease. Your skin flares up in angry red blotches all over and you can go crazy scratching yourself raw all the time. This disease appears in many forms. And plaque psoriasis is one of the most common ones.
You can tell that a person has plaque psoriasis by the appearance of it. It's quite instantly identifiable the way you get angry red blotches on the skin covered by a kind of transparent layer of dead skin. Usually, you get this on the elbow
Of course, the disease only affects the skin. But it can be so debilitating the way it affects everything about your life that pretty soon, it can be an emotional and psychological prop, too. To begin with, psoriasis is strictly painful and quite annoying. But people could even stand this. What they can't stand is how people take one look at you with your skin looking all alarming, and they think right away that you have some kind of terrible skin disease that you can catch. And they run from you.
You can tell that a person has plaque psoriasis by the appearance of it. It's quite instantly identifiable the way you get angry red blotches on the skin covered by a kind of transparent layer of dead skin. Usually, you get this on the elbow
Of course, the disease only affects the skin. But it can be so debilitating the way it affects everything about your life that pretty soon, it can be an emotional and psychological prop, too. To begin with, psoriasis is strictly painful and quite annoying. But people could even stand this. What they can't stand is how people take one look at you with your skin looking all alarming, and they think right away that you have some kind of terrible skin disease that you can catch. And they run from you.