I have TSW and I'm graduating soon.

I am currently going through topical steroid withdrawal, and I have been for a little while now, I wanna say 3-4 months? TSW is already devastating and takes so much from you, on top of that I am a senior in high school and I am graduating in May. I had a goal to have my skin cleared and to lose weight by my graduation. So maybe things are happening this way for me. I'm supposed to get my driver's license, turn 18 and graduate in the month of May, but my body feels like it's killing me.

I will say, I think the worst of my withdrawal is over. I started seeing a dermatologist who prescribed me cibinqo which has helped a lot, but I still have a long way to go. As of right now I have to just WAIT for my body to heal, she wants to keep my own cibinqo just so I can keep my life liveable and see if maybe as the TSW goes down the medicine will be more effective. But I just have to wait, and I hate it. Graduation is supposed to be a good time in my life, my mom is taking me on a trip for graduation, and I just got a new job and I'm scared something is going to happen, and I'll flare again and I'll have to quit. I have prom, and all of these fun things but my body is broken and ugly.

Another thing is how insecure my skin makes me. It's not NORMAL skin, it's broken and dying, and it oozes and bleeds and flakes and I look like no other 17 year old in my school. Nobody understands and I don't want this to take away my graduation. I only get one, it's not fair.