Hello. I have a chronic skin disease, Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS). I get multiple, large boils on my body that are very painful and hard to manage. I have been treated for these boils for 22 years, since I was 14. My official diagnosis came about five years ago. My problem is my family refuses to read any literature about my disorder. I've left hundreds of pages of material for them to look at, but they refuse to look at it. Instead, they insist I made up the disease, and I'm not sick. They insist I'm not sick even though they've seen the boils on my body, the surgery scars, and they even took me to the doctor for this condition as a youth. My mother even goes as far as telling people that I probably caught an STD and I'm dirty! Does anyone else have family that refuses to accept their illness? If so, how do you deal with it?
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Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- Thread starter renaka
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I dont have such a family, because i have little family to start with. However, you just reminded me of Job, in teh Holy Bible, who God allowed to experience alort of disasters, including skin ulcers. His friends almost forsook him and actually gave him hardtime. So, rather than dismissing his disease, they told him that it was his fault and that it was God's punishment. He was patient through all of this and finally God rewarded him and gave him more than what he started with. Your family may not accept that you have a genuine condition, but the Lord Jesus accepts. There is a verse in Proverbs that says "The king's heart is in the hands of the Lord like the rivers of water, He turns it whereever He wishes". It basically means that the heart or feelings of a person are all controlled by God and He alone can change a person's feelings. So God can change your family to feel for your condition and believe what you are going through. Do not loose heart, and keep praying for your family, not to accept it but rather ti have a soft heart than can feel the sufferings of others and empathise with them like our Lord Christ used to do with those around Him. May God give you patience and improved health.
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