It’s hard for me to post this picture. But I am doing it because I feel like I am on an island. Scars are quite common, I have sewed up many a laceration in my time as a family practice physician assistant, but facial scars are a different beast. I didn’t understand this until I […]
Anxiety and Fear – Overcoming Agoraphobia and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
It has been a while since I have been out with a group of people that I did not know well. This has been out of fear mostly, my belief that my facial deformity would be too distracting for others to accept has kept me homebound. Most of this is because of a scar to my […]