I've been struggling with this on and off for a decade now, and my answer to this changes daily 😞 it depends on where I'm going that day, who I'm going to be around, how bad my psoriasis is that day. Some days I feel fine and don't care about my spots showing, some days I'm so self conscious about them that I won't leave the house unless I can cover 90% of it up. Mine is on my knees/lower legs, elbows, and now my palms and the soles of my feet. Palms/soles make me so much more self conscious, because it itches. So. Bad. And I have to either scratch it and look insane, or stop everything I'm doing (I've had to pull over when I'm driving to/from work) and put anti itch cream on it. But what you're feeling is COMPLETELY normal. If people don't understand what it is, if you are comfortable explaining it then do. I've found that a lot of people just don't know what it is. I just tell them it's psoriasis, my skin likes to try and grow too fast and this is what happens. But it's hard some days 😞 I'm here to talk if you want!

yeah, I have a lot of lotions and what I do, is I use the essential oils bath salts when it gets really dry out, and I'll have to see if that works for me as well, I haven't seen a derm yet I plan on seeing one here soon hopefully

I use the bodyshop's body butter shea .... no scents in it and moistens my plaques thar I don't feel as much burning n definitely don't feel like gouging my skin off

My psoriasis is in my scalp, and behind my ears, I just keep my hair long and it doesn't look noticeable, but other than that I do not like the look of it, but having my hair long is kind of like an out of sight out of mind thing.