Often, heartbreak does indeed accompany psoriasis. If they go to a restaurant - other patrons will move away from them, terrified of 'catching' it. Likewise in the grocery store, the mall, the theater, health club, on a bus, train , plane, the workplace, even the Church or Synagogue. Children that suffer from psoriasis can tell you all about the heartbreak when their schoolmates and friends shun them, tease them, call them awful names and generally treat them like lepers.
Psoriasis knows no boundaries - it attacks from birth to old age.
Geography has nothing to do with it, neither do gender, race, economic or social status. On average, the medium age of onset is 28 years of age, though psoriasis is seen at birth and as late in age as 90. It is called psoriatic arthritis. Between 150,000 and 260,000 new cases of psoriasis occur each year. An estimated 400 people are granted disability by the Social Security Administration because of their psoriasis each year.