In a message dated 6/3/03 11:07:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
zkbernard@... writes:

> I once had a counsoler tell me after I told him I hated to
> be out in the public with my skin showing he had the nerve to tell me he
> understood because he was almost bald headed

I got that before too. Dude describes some rash he once had, sounded like
poison ivy or something fungal he got from a trip to honduras. He told me dont
worry about it, it'll go away.YA RIGHT! If I had been in a normal state of
emotion at that moment I would have blasted him. Then it wouldnt have been
schizophrenia(what?) but psychosis!
Better yet drop a stack of clinical studies in front of him argue with them.
Heres something to show that next professional ignoramous you run across.
Stephen R. Rapp et al
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 1999 Sep;41(3Pt):401-7
Psoriasis causes as much disability as other major medical diseases.

Table II. Comparasin between healthy adults and patients with psoriasis and
other chronic conditions. (Standardized T scores)
Physical Mental

No. Mean(SD) Rank* Mean(SD)
Rank*
Psoriasis 317 41.17(14.21) 10 45.69(11.37) 9
Healthy Individuals 468 55.62(5.10) 1 53.43( 6.33)
1
Dermatitis 214 46.88(11.49) 2 46.16(12.06)
8
Arthritis 826 43.15(11.62) 6 48.81(11.11)
7
Cancer 105 45.12(11.60) 3 48.82(11.07)
6
Chronic lung diseas 182 42.31(14.08) 8 44.47(12.28)
10
Hypertension 2089 44.31(10.76) 5 52.22(9.28)
2
Myocardial Infarct. 107 44.64(10.02) 7 51.67(8.19)
4
Cong. heart failure 216 34.50(12.08) 11 50.43(11.13)
5
Type 2 Diabetes 541 41.52(11.27) 9 51.90(9.55)
3
Depression 504 44.96(12.05) 4 34.84(12.17)
11
*Higer rank indicates better functioning.

Now what does it do to compound the severity when you also consider that many
on this message board also suffer arthritis and depression? (psst thats
already pretty much figured in but were trying to make a case here) as if the
raw
numbers arent convincing enough. Now this wasnt some survey of 8 people the
likes of which I am somewhat sceptical of the results obtained from. This was
a large scale study collaborated by 2 different Universities so the results
should be accurate and representative. I will add this chart to the files
section of group so if you want to copy it in the future you can find it there.
The columns in this chart will probably be all messed up for some of you. If
that happens in your case I appologise but it's out of my control. Orin


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