您可能现在不相信它,但是Ciena并不总是对她的牛皮癣开放。长大后,她尽了最大的努力将疾病隐藏起来以融入其中。
她说:“我在小学上最早的回忆,感觉就像是一个局外人,以某种方式疏远了,因为我有这样的东西,我认为人们一直在看。”
她记得三年级被称为名字,是一个进出医生办公室的孩子,他们总是穿着长袖和指甲油覆盖皮疹和伪装钉子的指甲。“即使外面很热,我也会穿连帽衫,” Ciena说。
在大多数情况下,她的副手工作。但是,当Ciena上大学并经历了一个非常糟糕的爆发时,一切都改变了,这使她进入了急诊室。她说,她的身体超过80%的牛皮癣覆盖着红色,原始的,哭泣的牛皮癣,她患有严重的疲劳,发烧和发冷:“我病得很重。”
For the first time in her life, Ciena switched her focus to her health — she decided to take a break from both school and acting, which she’d been actively involved in since she was 14. “My psoriasis needed my attention,” she says, “and I couldn’t pretend like it wasn’t there anymore. I let it get to that point, [and now I had to do] something about it.”
几年后隐藏牛皮癣,Ciena知道是时候告诉人们了,她不得不弄清楚如何。社交媒体给她一种即将向所有人“出来”的牛皮癣的方法。