My name is Gabriel I’m 21 and I’ve had super severe Exzema since I was born.

My Eczema flare ups are constant and excruciatingly painful and constant.

I am covered head to toe in inflamed open wounds, dry patches, and my skin feels feverish at times. My skin is raw all over.

IT’S EVERYWHERE.. but my joints are the worse.

I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind.

Most nights recently are hell. I can’t regulate my body temperature I’ll wake up really hot and start sweating and that causes a lot of burning in the raw spots. I usually try to cool down and then my skin just gets dry and moving becomes a chore even to try and doctor myself up with lotion. All I can do is lay down and scream until I eventually exhaust myself and fall asleep only to repeat the cycle every other hour or so.

Showers have become terrifying and painful as well and leave me feeling like I have no energy in me once I get out.

I’ve noticed as well when my skin gets super flared I mentally can’t focus on anything. I feel dumb almost like I’m not all there mentally.

It makes Socializing and finding a long term relationship hard.

I don’t know what to do anymore.

I can’t get back on Dupixent because I don’t have medical insurance.

I dropped out of school my senior year.

It’s hard keeping a job.

I just don’t know what to do anymore but getting by each day is becoming so draining and I’m tired.

I’m tired of fighting everyday…

I’m tired of the embarrassment, the brain fog, the suffering, the loneliness, I can’t manage social situations.

My family says I’m lazy but living sucks.

I have lost my mind to this shit.