Managing adolescent angst from skin stigma


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Teenagers with neurodermatitis often restrict their activities as they feel too self-conscious about their condition, which can take a psychological toll on them. Photo: dpa

From the teen years onwards, severe neurodermatitis can cause redness or cracked skin to appear on the wrists, neck and eyelids.

Being so visible, the symptoms of this chronic inflammatory skin disease of unknown cause, can hit the psyche of young people in particular hard.

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