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…
For eleven years, I lived inside the fire of Topical Steroid Withdrawal (TSW) – a conditionthat strips the skin, body, and spirit raw.Some nights it was my skin burning and bleeding. Other nights it was my mind unraveling.At times it was the silence of being unseen.What helped me wasn’t one single cure or quick fix….
by Nina Ajdin There was a morning recently when I woke up and couldn’t open my eyes properly. Not tired. Not groggy. Actually couldn’t open them. The skin around them had tightened overnight, crusted, swollen, the kind of thing that makes you understand, viscerally, what it means to be trapped inside your own body. I…
