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Acne can be a plague that diminishes life’s quality at any age
For those of us who never had severe acne problems, even as teenagers, it may be difficult to understand what a scourge it can seem in the lives of those who suffer severe acne or prolonged acne that they never "out grow" after their teen years.
I bring this up as an important issue when we consider how to best "take time for living" our lives to the fullest because I just read a report online about teenagers and acne. The report, at the website Science Daily, told of 266 teen volunteers who took part in a survey recently in San Francisco. Researchers went through a complex formulation relating survey responses to time to money spent, or something like that. The end result was that the teens "reported they would pay a median (midpoint) of $275 to have never had acne, $100 to be 100-percent cleared of acne, $10 for 50-percent clearance and zero for 100-percent clearance with scarring. Parents said they would pay a median of $250 for their child to never have had acne, $100 for 100-percent clearance, $100 for 50-percent clearance and zero for 100-percent clearance with scarring," according to the researchers' findings.
In my experience, I have a close family member who has struggled from her earliest teen years into her 60s, trying about every sort of acne treatment and acne cream available, and never found resolution of the problem.
I understand these days, if this problem is plaguing you, there are somewhat expensive and various types of laser treatments that hold promise for permanent acne eradication. If you have this issue, and if you can find a way to try that, good for you. Others, such as our family member, probably will just need to live with acne, seeking treatments that you can and hoping for new developments.
But don't give up your quality of life over the matter. Whatever may be bothering you, medical or physical problems or perhaps emotional struggles or financial crises, I truly hope you'll get on top of the issues and enjoy taking time for living to the best of your ability today!
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