This is about the new ICD-10 code for TSW (Topical Steroid Withdrawal), and what it does and doesn’t do. It doesn’t hold the truth of a disease. It holds what a system has agreed to let itself see. Here is what that looks like, in practice, on one page of one federal document. Page 158….
Skin is more than a physical boundary. This reflection explores how people-pleasing, emotional limits, and protecting our energy can shape healing from TSW and eczema.
I never knew who I was. Not in the way people say it when they’re young and still figuring themselves out. I mean something quieter than that. Something eerier. If you had asked me, before TSW, before the burning, before everything, I would have given you an answer. I would have told you what I…
