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I was born with eczema in 1941, and I used to scratch myself raw during scratching trances that lasted for hours. Afterward, I was so sore and bleeding, I could barely stand the pain as I bathed my ragged and dirty skin after hours of misery. The stinging was nearly unbearable. Finally, when I discovered the eczema list (National Eczema Assoc.)
and communicated with others (not one single person ever revealed themselves to me during my growing up years with anything akin to my problem), someone mentioned the book Skin Deep by Dr. Ted Grossbart of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital.
At age 40 I sat down to read and unearthed words that empathically seared my brain; someone else had articulated my abominable life up to that point. Skin Deep revealed a program that gave me the intellectual power to conquer the horrible pervasive itching that had plagued me for 40 ! years. I drowned in the book and its revelatory truths, and after living that book and absorbing its meaning over numerous weeks, the terrible Itch left me permanently. For the past 20 years, I have had no unconquerable need to find a private corner to itch myself raw, neither at home nor at work or anywhere else. I no longer need the heavy-duty tranquilizers or aspirin or prednisone. I still use topical non-steroid tacrolimus medication because my skin has been damaged and thinned, and Iím careful about exposing myself to cats, insects, animals of any kind, dust and chemicals, nature, and even the sun. But Iíve found peace at last in my own skin! I believe Skin Deep taught me how to intellectually conquer the driven itch. Life became worth living for me after that book. So I recommend it to others if they are willing to think the itch out of existence!
Rating:  [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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