00:00:01:23 - 00:00:21:18
Katya
I found out that I had psoriasis long after having symptoms. I was like, “Of course, skin does weird things. This is just a patch of dry skin.” So, for the first year, I maybe had four or five plaques on my whole body: one on my foot, one on my ankle, and I just thought it was dry skin,

00:00:21:18 - 00:00:45:21
Katya
so I put Aquaphor on it and left it alone. Some of them actually healed and went away, so I figured it was fine, and it wasn't until I had more significant coverage, say like my entire calves, that I actually went to a dermatologist and they said, “Oh, this is psoriasis.” Depending on the type of psoriasis, your, the way that it shows up on your skin can take different forms.

00:00:45:21 - 00:01:10:03
Katya
What I have are smaller, kind of circular or amoeba-like red areas. I had heard of it before. My grandma has it. I immediately thought oh yeah, like Nana had it on her arms and at like different functions, would sometimes, she would wear gloves so that people didn't see it. And it was kind of making sense to me that, oh, I have what my grandma has.

00:01:10:06 - 00:01:32:19
Katya
I thought, this is very live-withable . How do I treat it? The dermatologist said, “Well, there's no cure.” I was like, “Ah, dammit, are you serious?” He said, “There's no cure, but we can manage it.” Because there's so many different contributors to what brings it about, there's going to be different things that help each of us, and

00:01:32:21 - 00:01:41:03
Katya
what works for one person is not necessarily going to work for another. Nobody is in any position to judge anyone. We're all just trying to be comfortable.