What do you do for a living and how does it affect ur condition?

[saas]

Hello Guys, been a long time since I last posted.

I've always heard stress is a weighty contributor when it comes to initiating the surfacing of psoriasis or an accelerator for worsening an already present condition. Though I have never read any report or clear researched examination as to how that is possible or whether it's true or not. At times I have heard some sufferer's accounts or read similar forum reports/blogs online where sufferers agree with the stress trigger, so I would like to know about the sufferer's condition and how it has changed while suffering from stress?

So what do you do for a living? Or what other factors in your experience have alarmed high stress levels? And most importantly how did it affect your condition, if it did at all? Some people may, as much as myself some 8 years ago, fall into depression which can also be in relation to stress and lack of confidence, either way, if this is something you experienced, was your condition affected?

Also if anyone has researched the stress related symptoms or have come across any credible source of material or source itself, please add some info. Thank u in adv.

[john729]

Paradoxically I've always found that stress has the opposite effect on me. It actually leads to the P improving. I work as an analytical chemist in an environment where workload and demands change at the drop of a hat. Sometimes I'm given a problem to solve and I have no idea what I can do to provide the answer. Somehow or other this acts as a stimulus and, whereas I have no indication of the way forward I know I will be able to produce something. Is it that that provides the antidote to a flare? It's something I've always puzzled about and I'm stll no nearer a solution.

[Tangles (Donna)]

Counsellor - abuse and grief and loss

Stress seems to make my P get sore and makes more lesions pop up

but its stress of my day to day life that stress's me not my work

[kathryn1989]

I go to university. But I find when im stressed my skin itches more and goes red and probably it contributes to new spots. ut I dont find university stressful I find other things in my life stressful.

I had my worst flare up ever last july when my boyfriend broke up with me and I fell out with my best friend. It was a nightmare skins quite a lot better with treatment now but it does play up.

[ChristianM]

Money Stress rather than work stress for me

my work is fairly stressful with tight deadlines

However my worst flare was a few months back

just bought a house, bank balance failing, credit card being used to fill car up and i was permanently with a cold for about three weeks and i packed in smoking

all too much i think for my P and decided that to add to it all it would shatter my confidence and make me look like a beetroot, oh happy day 

now slowly beginning to clear, it was one of those flare ups that nothing can get rid of UV treatment just tanned me and did nothing to the P, so now clearing i really dont think the climate helped many of us this year in Blightey Either

when life gets heavy the P will come and get you 

[Kosjenka]

i'm a student studying something that i dislike. everytime i have exams i'm like a bomb ready to explode: i'm nervous cause i have to study sth i hate, i'm nervous cause i'm always short with time, i'm nervous cause i can't concentrate, i'm nervous cause i can't get any sleep and so on. that scenario usually happens in september. and then a few months later, usually this time of a year my skin condition gets worse. in two days i'm visiting my dermatologist, cause it happened again. so in my case stress does affect my skin condition, but it never happens right away, but a few months later.

[Jamie..]

Work can be stressful, which im sure doesnt help my skin, but more worried about what other damage the stress is doing to my body   Also, my office is in the warehouse so as soon as the shutter doors open, heeellllo cold air

[Samster]

I'm a business analyst in a large financial services company in Edinburgh and I've never really felt stress contributes to my psoriasis.  I also have a great home life with a loving wife and two young children.

I have had some stressful periods at work but I enjoy work and I'm also able to plan and prioritise accordingly so i'm not under the cosh.

I genuinely believe i just have a particularly evil streak of psoriasis and when it's not being treated it flares up with a vengeance. 

[NitroNick]

I'm an AA Patrol and as a rule my job has limited, if any impact upon my Psoriasis.

The one exception came last year when I had to work a run of long nights for the first time ever. This caused a Major Flare and to date was the only time I had to take time off work to go home and take emergency treatment for my skin.

[cceg]

I am a nurse in A&E - stressful YES, impact on skin? I dont think so. All the Dr's know what i'm on and make abit of a fuss over me They are very good and wont let me deal with patients who may have something contagious as my immune system is low due the the meds i am on for skin...

Living at home with a 6 year old who has severe autism... has a massive effect on my skin, my daily worrys about him are mind blowing at times.