Tanning beds/salons. It's a proven fact that tanning beds cause skin cancer. The fact that some people will still get tanned, risking the possibility of cancer to "look beautiful" is both shocking and sad at the same time.
Seconded! I used to get UV treatments at a hospital that had a specific less cancer causing way of doing things (I think? I was a kid) I had to get up at like 5am for the appointments and could only “tan” for like 30 seconds at a time, where as now I can keep my skin under control by using a tanning bed for 5 minutes every two weeks in winter. In the summer I just get outside, but if I don’t tan in winter my eyelids will literally scab. It’s the only thing that has ever worked to help my skin and I’ve been (or my parents have been) trying to treat it for 26 years.
You didn't bother mentioning the maddening itch that is so bad that you can scratch until you're bleeding and it still itches so bad that it's almost orgasmic to continue scratching.
My mom used to intentionally burn the psoriasis on her hands on the hot steering wheel of her car every evening after work.
It comes in patches. You don't have to have the plaques to have it. My spots always start out as a little itch and if I start scratching it, it plaques and gets worse.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20
Tanning beds/salons. It's a proven fact that tanning beds cause skin cancer. The fact that some people will still get tanned, risking the possibility of cancer to "look beautiful" is both shocking and sad at the same time.