THE DESCRIPTION OF THE VITILIGO VICTIM FROM THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
A PAPER
WRITTEN
BY
ROTUA MEYLY
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DIPLOMA-III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN
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Supervisor,
Dr.Roswita Silalahi, M.Hum. NIP 19540528198303 2 001
Submitted to Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Diploma III in English Study Program
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Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A. NIP 19521126198112 1 001
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Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara
Accepted by the Board of Examiners in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Diploma III Examination of the Diploma III of English Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara.
The examination is held on July 28th 2015
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AUTHOR’S DECLARATION
I am, ROTUA MEYLY, declare that I am the sole author of this paper. Except where the reference is made in the text of this paper, this paper contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a paper by which I have qualified for or awarded another degree.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Beyond of all, I would like to give my gratitude for God, Jesus Christ for His blessing and guiding me abundantly in writing and accomplishing this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma-III certificate from English Department Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara. Without His mercy, I am nothing at all in doing this paper. Thanks God.
Then, I would like to express my thankful, love, and appreciation to:
• Dr.Syahron Lubis, M.A. as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies,
University of Sumatera Utara.
• Dr.Matius C.A.Sembiring, M.A. as the Head of English Diploma Study
Program, who have supervised me in doing this paper.
• Dr.Roswita Silalahi, M.Hum. as my supervisor. Thank you very much for
the valuable time in giving the correction and constructive critics and suggestions in completing this paper.
• Drs.Siamir Marulafau, M.Hum. as my reader. Thank you very much for
the valuable time in reading for completing this paper.
• All of the lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for sharing us a lot
of knowledge.
• My truly beloved parents, St.S.Nainggolan and L.Pakpahan. I express my
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I am proud of having you and I present this paper special for you as you know me well since I was born in this world.
• My beloved brother, Sintro Side Nainggolan, my sister in-law, Elisabeth
Murni Sinaga, and my cute nephew, Josephen Francisco Nainggolan. Thank you for your praying, supporting, and understanding.
• All of my friends, especially Saraho, Elisaho, Floho, and Ekaho. Thank
you very much for teaching me many things in this life, through words, act, and advice.
• The Community of Vitiligo 25th June in Facebook. Thank you so much for
your sharing that helping me in writing this paper.
Finally, I do realize that this paper is still far from being perfect, so that I welcome any constructive critics and suggestion. May this paper is helpful for the readers.
Medan, July 28th, 2015 The author,
Rotua Meyly
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2. THE REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Culture ... 6
2.2 Psychology ... 7
2.3 Sociology ... 9
2.4 Vitiligo/the Skin Disease ... 11
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the Study
Some people are born on a perfect condition of physic as some are no, some have disability of physic which disturbed the appearance since they were born in this world. But mostly in this era modernization people were born on a perfect condition but after getting older it changed become something that disturbed the appearance itself. It can be caused of many factors, such as: an accident of car or motorcycle, the using of wrong cosmetic, the wrong habit that give a bad effect on the body, the low immune that make the body is easier to be attacked of disease.
Here, on this writing, the author would like to describe a condition of people which were born with a normal skin color but along with time it changed into white patches that simply disturbed the appearance. The description of skin disease on this paper is concerning about how the feeling of pain is, especially the pain of minds which can be said in other words as the psychology and the sociology for social life impact of people who suffer the skin disease.
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color of the normal skin to white pale patches. It occurred when the skin pigment cells die or unable to do the function normally, however, the loss of skin pigmentation is particularly noticeable or easy to be seen, as it is around the parts of body, such as face, wrist, feet, mouth, eyes, and nostrils/around the nose.
This is not a new discovered kind of disease but, of course, this is a rare disease among human beings around the world.
The vitiligo victims usually need a high support from people who are close with them or family members to have and keep spirit to face their daily life. The vitiligo victims usually have a same struggling in life on a condition of mentally down, very depressed, very stressful, and feeling very bad among other people. But along with time, after getting older and older, getting adult, more mature physically and spiritually, the vitiligo victims will understand and believed that everything happened for a clear and great reason. How hard the condition, the reason why that thing happened is not always need to be known, because sometimes just the time which can answer the most important question on this life. This is absolutely have a very long challenging, many spiritual lesson, very much the struggle of life, and these the vitiligo victims can say as the Power of God’s hand.
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could do. For example, without stress, human might not be sufficiently motivated to complete the activities they need to accomplish. However, it is also clear that too much stress can take a victim on physical and psychological health.
Health and illness are not spread out in same or random way in the life of society as some people are easier to get sick than others, and many diseases are more common in a group of people than among others. Many factors are involved in causing a person get a disease. Some are genetic; the other factors are social, income level, occupation, place of residence, lifestyle—all these and more affect the causing disease.
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1.2 The Problems of the Study
Based on the background above, the problem of this study may be recognized as follows:
1) What are the problems of the vitiligo victims from the psychological and sociological aspects?
2) What have the vitiligo victims done to manage the skin disease and overcome the problems of psychological and sociological aspects?
1.3 The Scope of the Study
In order to be specific in the writing of this paper, the author would like to limit the things to be described on this paper. The author just describes about the problems of the vitiligo victims from psychological and sociological aspects, especially the author would like to describe the experience of Rotua Meyly to get concern tightly of this writing of paper.
1.4 The Purposes of the Study
Related to the problem of the study, the purpose of this study may be recognized as follows:
1) The author uses a question word of what as the first problem of this study in order to explain to the readers and let the readers know and understand some of the psychological and sociological problems of the vitiligo victims.
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1.5 The Significances of the Study
The significances that the author can find in this paper are:
The author thinks that there are not many people know about this disease, some might think that the skin was burnt or felt down on something, or others. But here, after describing the disease on this paper, hopefully the readers are able to understand about this skin disease and the problems of psychological and sociological aspects of the sufferer of this skin disease and hopefully the author wants the readers can help the people who also suffer vitiligo out to maintain their complaint or pain of mind by treating and blending with them is one of the best efforts that the readers can do.
1.6 The Method of the Study
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2. The Review of Related Literature
2.1 Culture
Culture is a defining in determining how and what people think and act on daily life, in social interaction. It is comprised of ideas, behavior, and material objects that are passed from one person to another and from one generation to the next in a human group or society. In a particular way, culture is often used to refer specifically the symbolic object which indicate one ethnic group is distinguish from another such as body modification , clothing, or jewelry.
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Culture shapes people’s thoughts and behaviors in many ways for living. The differences “the ways for living” upon the individual is indicated by the cultural shaping of perception, memory, and attitudes of that individual self. The social interaction only will acquire “the effect of culture upon individual” to various people that allow the training in the life-ways is acquired. Richerson & Boyd (2005) says that the matter of culture is used in the meaning as a source of any kind of information that is required from members of one’s species through social learning that is capable of affecting an individual’s behaviors.
In this modern era globalization, the idea of “culture” has been widened, not only discuss or analyze about the traditional high culture, but also more fully analyzing about everyday meanings and practices. It applies the wider social sciences. The theoretical perspective of cultural materialism that hold human symbolic culture arises from the material conditions of human life, as human create the conditions for physical survival, and the basis of culture is found in develop gradually biological nature.
2.2 Psychology
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The behavior and mental processes tells about what people thoughts,
emotions, perceptions, reasoning processes, and even the biological activities that maintain the function of body, such as the feeling and thinking of protecting family, the natural affection of loving someone, and how the brain and the nervous system are exist. These all rely on ideas, values, feelings, strategies, and goals that have been shaped by human cultural experiences self. Psychology tries to describe, predict, and explain human behavior and mental processes, as well as helping to change and improve the lives of people and the world itself.
Besides that, the study of psychology and behavior which rooted in and embodied in culture discuss on one field of study that is cultural psychology. The main principle of cultural psychology is that the mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive, which is said in other words that people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them
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As the author has described on the background of study that besides feeling stressful, the vitiligo victims usually have a same struggling in life on a condition of mentally down and very depressed. Coyne (2000) says that depression is one kind of mood disturbance. The mood disturbance can include understanding, behavioral, and physical symptoms, as well as interpersonal difficulties. The depression is a condition when an individual suffered a depressive disorder without ever experiencing madness. As like the vitiligo victim themselves, they are not getting mad of something, but the understanding that feeling attacked, being a topic of others conversation in some places, feeling seeing of many people with an odd staring simply attacked the mind.
2.3 Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of have a better understanding about the world towards society. Sociology is applied by sociologist to be learnt the whole people in this world with some purposes that given a valuable part of giving the self-understanding and self-improvement in various situation in society, providing a special way of approaching personal problems, the job-related, or political that can help society to make the decisions in everyday life.
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being and not merely the absence of disease, or infirmity. Health is not an easy term to define.
For children and adults, there are three main categories may be considered as defined in illness: physical appearance, emotional disposition, and behavioral traits. Among these three categories physical appearance is the first and most obvious part. The way people react to someone’s face and outward appearance can simply affect that person’s personality. The broadness of the shoulders, hips, and mouth; the length of the nose or legs; the texture and color of skin and hair— all influence the way people treat a person. As unfair as this may seem, such differential responses begin almost immediately in life. Brooks (1989) says that our bias against physically unattractive people is so strong that an organization called Uglies Unlimited was formed to help its members cope with problems regarding self-respect and job opportunities.
Helman (1990: 63-68) says that a world view of many cultural groups integrates physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and three all are necessary for optimal health. Even within the biomedical model, cultural values are reflected when it comes to diagnosing and treating disease.
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2.4 Vitiligo/ the skin disease
Vitiligo is a pigmentation disorder in which melanocytes (the cells that make pigment) in the skin are destroyed. The whitened patches are hypersensitive to ultraviolet light and burn readily when exposed to the sun. As a result, white patches appear on the skin in different parts on the body. This is a spreading kind of disease. The spreading is not for other people, but for only the body of the vitiligo victims. Similar patches also appear on both the mucous membranes (tissues that line the inside of the mouth and nose) and the retina (inner layer of the eyeball). The hair that grows on areas affected by vitiligo sometimes turns white.
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3. THE STEPS OF OVERCOMING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
Physical appearance is one of the factors that influence people’s personality. Also looking pretty is most wanted and desired thing not only by women but also by men all over the world and thus there are a lot of skin care creams and cosmetics that are being produced and used world widely at a very large-scale.
People do believe on looking at the outside at the first time, the author do believe on it, most of people do believe on it, because logically, how will someone get to the point of knowing the beauty of inside of the other without having an intimacy with that person. Although in some cases, some psychologist are having ability to do that by looking someone’s style of walking, of speaking, of laughing, of eating, of staring, and many things, but it is just a very few one of human being, not many people are able to do that, of course. The beauty of outside is mostly as the thing that people will look at the first time.
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Besides that, Cooley (1922/1902) says that individual’s personality is not simply who that person actually are or what people actually think about; it is based on the perception of how other people think of that person. As the first problem of study on this paper, the author uses a question of what the problems of the vitiligo victims from the psychological and sociological aspects. Here, the author would like to describe into two parts.
3.1 The Psychological Problems
As the author has explained on the background of study, mostly the vitiligo victims have the same problems of psychology aspect as on condition of mentally down, that is a condition of lose the self-confidence in front of other, very depressed as a condition of having a very low spirit in mind, very stressful, and feeling very bad among other people. Bhaskar says, “Vitiligo gave an awkward feeling when I was in a public place. I found myself nowhere. Selecting clothes was a tough job, getting a good photograph was even tougher. It becomes stressful when it comes to issues like finding a partner, meeting people in a new environment, etc. Though it is not contagious at times find it difficult to accept us. We are just as common as other people.” The vitiligo victims feel that people are focusing on their skin color disease on their body when talk with them. And the author believes that sometimes this perception was simply wrong and sometimes is simply right.
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Stress affects human in many ways. And indeed, all of people must have ever faced or are facing stress in life. It can be a condition on being over-loaded with work, dealing with a difficult situation, or being frustrated in an unhappy relationship, and many other things, including the affecting of vitiligo. It may increase the risk to get ill, or even it may directly cause illness, or it may make less able to recover from a disease, and it may reduce the ability to cope with future stress. And that is something threaten or challenge that human need to get over through as wise as people could do. For example, without stress, human might not be sufficiently motivated to complete the activities they need to accomplish. However, it is also clear that too much stress can take a victim on physical and psychological health.
Sometimes, stress is useful but extreme stress often leads to serious health problems. Stress is a normal part of life—and, of course, an absolutely poor part of life.
As like the author has described that the immune systems are responsible for the condition of vitiligo. The vitiligo victims often fell stressful with a condition that happened on them. Indeed, stress and the immune system are closely related. Stress is the causing of the weakened of the immune system. When a person is in the alarm or exhaustion stage, for example, the immune system functions poorly, and, of course, in this stage the strange material, such as bacteria and viruses are likelier to multiply and cause disease.
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condition. In psychology, it is called as the Type A behavior. One of the Type A behaviors is mostly having by the vitiligo victims is impatient. The vitiligo victims expects the repigmentation, the process of getting back the normal skin color as soon as possible, but indeed, it takes a very long time to get repigmentation fully for the skin color for vitiligo, this is, of course, causing the more stressful condition for them for the expectation is opposite with the reality.
Look at this statement one of the vitiligians on World Vitiligo Day-June 25th page on facebook, Christina Alvarado. Christina Alvarado says, “I have a hard time accepting my condition, when I see others that are accepting it changes my outlook on life. Thank you to all who share your photos and information. It is helpful to others like me.” On this statement, of course, it shows that Christina Alvarado has a very hard psychology problem in her life of accepting her condition which leads her on a very high stressful condition.
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I never saw for long time that make me lost of myself. It is exist for myself, I got tired to be not myself, to cover my skin disease, to get it blurt by something that can make it same as like my normal skin color, I hated it much, I hated to cover it up. I cannot do that along and always every time I want to go somewhere, every time I want to look more confident in front of others, and every time I try harder to hide it, at that time also I get more and more tired to do that. I sometimes feel to have an escaping the world of me, me, me, and only me, is there such as that world? Sadly, there is no that kind of world in reality such as like that. Sometimes people whisper near to me and accidentally made me hear what they are talking about. They are talking about what is wrong with my face. And it makes me sad inside of my heart, it makes me uncomfortable towards people. Vitiligo victims are a very sensitive one. Just act normally towards us. I don’t need to have a life-threatening experience to start bringing meaning into my life, but something that I have to do is to know it itself. Trying to have more positive than negative emotions is the best way that I have done for myself, although it is not so easy as we thought, but live in meaningful life is better, indeed. Avoiding covering my vitiligo is the best part that I have done for myself.”
3.2 The Sociological Problems
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their life, as like life style, having communication or interaction with people, and also a social life around society.
People cannot understand the real feeling of the vitiligo victims have in their life. Mostly friends and family members support to be always act common towards people. The vitiligo victims are trying to do it, but sometimes it is hard for them to act natural towards people especially for the vitiligo victims who have vitiligo on their face. The feeling of bad is there on their mind, the feeling of being the center of attention is real.
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Many the vitiligo victims choose to avoid crowded or people who gathering in one place because they think that it will hurt themselves by getting much awkward attention and being the topic of talking off. This, of course, makes the vitiligo victims far away from the highest purposes of sociology itself.
Some people are even scare to see the vitiligo victims, maybe because some think that the skin disease will be getting spread by having contact them. The vitiligo victims do understand others feeling that do not want to get affected too as like the changing of the skin color, but all of people mostly have a point of view is a misconception. Vitiligo is not spreading kind of disease by having contact with. It is just spreading on the body of the sufferer. As one of the vitiligo victims’ statement that he shared off on community of VitiligoWorldDay in Facebook, Anandharaj Ganesan says, “Though I suffered a lot with vitiligo, I respect, love and care for people who genuinely accept me as one amongst them and I never bother about people who comment on my features. I always wanted to be unique in whatever I do. I am a volunteer of “For Being Better India” project to serve rural people. Social service gives me a positive energy to build myself. I would like to convey that vitiligo is a de-pigmentation of skin, it is just a disorder. It won’t spread by accepting foods, physical touch or working with vitiligo affected people.”
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we live in, we are so much more. We live in a body that contains the real person we truly are. Our skin and all that is behind our physical holders is just a carrier. We have a soul that represents our true essence.”- Anonyms. The vitiligo victims need to blend and have to gather with other people. So, act normal towards the vitiligo victims is the best thing that readers can do.
As the second problem of study on this paper, the author uses a question of what the vitiligians have done to manage and overcome the skin disease and the problems. A stressful condition will only be reduced when a person successfully copes with it. Successful coping is engaged with a number of factors, including engage in problem-focused coping, use positive self-talk, seek social support, and practice relaxation. These engage in psychology part.
3.3 The Steps of Managing the Skin Disease
Indeed, vitiligo has taken a serious attention of Dermatologist (expert in science of the skin) and they have given their time and energy to resolve about this disease and they shared some tips about how to manage vitiligo in daily life, by that, the author herself doing some ways to overcome this disease in daily life, and those are:
1) By protecting the skin from the sun
This tip is engage with some reasonable ideas of the dermatologist: a. Skin that has lost its pigment/the skin color sunburn very easily b. Vitiligo can be worsen if getting a bad sunburn
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So, to protect the skin from the sun, the author herself using sunscreen with UVA/UVB protection, a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of 30 or more, and water resistance one and wearing clothing that protects her skin from the sun as like using a half long hands shirt/t-shirt and pant if go outside and using umbrella. 2) Avoiding getting a tattoo or any kind of thing that need to have wound the skin. It will make the vitiligo spreading easily.
3) Learning more about vitiligo.
Knowledge often improves a person’s quality of life. So do people who have a problem with their health. By searching and reading in some media about vitiligo helps the author learning more can help her decides what treatment feels right for her.
4) Eating the best food
The author herself eating the food that is good for vitiligo as like oranges, lemons, grapefruits, cantaloupe, kiwis, strawberries, vegetables, tomatoes, red,
green peppers and broccoli that are rich vitamin c regularly and avoiding the food
that is not good to eat as like cashew, mango, cassava, cherry, red chilies, areca
nut, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, blueberries, pears, apples, and teas as they
contain phenol compounds (tannins).
5) Applying ointment every night (Protopic Ointment 0.1 %) and drinking celery
juice regularly. But it is better for the vitiligo victims to consult with the skin
doctor first before deciding to choose one of the treatments to cure vitiligo.
Many people and even doctors said that vitiligo is hard to be cure but, of
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vitiligo victims themselves believe, hope, and keep faith that they will get well
soon.
Marcela Romero says, “I will begin a homeopathic treatment for vitiligo. The treatment was suggested by an acquaintance of mine and the treatment from India. Wish me luck with it.” And Rosco Freeman shared his vitiligo treatment by consuming herbal organic baby red and green romaine, chilantro, salad, banana, and celery. And Rotua Meyly is also consuming these to cure vitiligo.
3.4 The Steps of Overcoming the Psychological Problems
Stress has three factors that examine it. Firstly, it is about personality factors. Certain personality characteristic help people cope more effectively with stress and make them less attacked to illness. This is the hard part for the vitiligo victims to get the certain personality in order to cope the effective way with stress. And that is why many vitiligo victims get worst with the vitiligo condition on their body, the more stress caused the vitiligo spreading easily.
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control the feeling of act common towards people that the vitiligo victims meet in the street or college, or school, or another public place where going outside. The vitiligo victims considered the different color on their face is just the uniqueness that makes them different from others, of course this is very much hard controlling the emotion of thinking. And the last is about the personal control. Personal control is the important aspect of stress to extent people in controlling and reducing stress. A sense of personal control over stressful has been related to emotional well-being, successful coping with a stressful event, and behavior change that can help to make a good health.
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And Rotua Meyly also shared her struggle, she says, “26th April 2014 was the day that changed everything in my life. It was the day when I should join on a test of the Student Changing around the world. God is strengthening me. He whispered and help me get along through this all depression and the pain of mind in my life. Jesus is my savior, He is good at all the time. He is my best friend, He always there to listen my story in happiness and sadness, He encourage me at all the time. I do not know even that I get along this through difficulties into the blessed thing in my life. I just need time and the patience to get His miracle in my life to get my repigmentation of skin because as long as we still have faith and keep believing in Him, everything is possible. God’s promises never expire, He is there on the right time.” Actually, the most powerful thing that can change our mindset and act towards the condition that happened on us is our beliefs in God. That is back to Him again.
3.5 The Steps of Overcoming the Sociological Problems
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Social support has three types of benefits. First, social support has a benefit as tangible assistance, which is means family and friends can provide goods and services in stressful circumstances, for example, there is a time for the vitiligo victims simply not comfort with themselves in front of others, even to go outside to buy food for them, they are not interested in. So, in this case, someone who can help these vitiligo victims to buy food has been showing that the vitiligo victims get the social support. Second, social support has a benefit as information, which is means individuals who provide support can also recommend specific actions and plans to help the person under stress cope more effectively, for example, friends may notice that is over thinking about the vitiligo victim of her skin disease and suggest ways to manage and control her thought about herself towards others more efficiently with a time for making relax for self. And the last, social support as emotional support, which is means in stressful situation, individuals often suffer emotionally and many develop depression, anxiety, and loss of self-esteem, for example, when someone is in a condition of emotionally stressful problem, friends and family can reassure the person under stress that make become a valuable individual who is loved by others.
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are low – “You are who you are. No matter what fault others find in you, you just have to keep smiling, keep forgiving, keep forgetting and keep living! And trust me, at the end, life will give you tremendous things.” See, in this statement, the author would like to say that mostly if the vitiligo victims want to cope the sociological problems, they should simply ignore all those who speak behind them back. The vitiligo victims just have to keep smiling, keep forgiving, keep forgetting and keep living. As like Christina Alvarado has said that she has a hard time for accepting a vitiligo on her body. But Christina Alvarado has been reassure by the benefits of social support as an emotional support by the people who make a cared, being loved, and being accepted is exist on her soul. Here, care is very much powerful medicine for someone.
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4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
4.1 Conclusions
1) Vitiligo is one of the skin diseases that give a negative impact of out-looking of the victims. The problems of the vitiligo victims from the psychological and sociological aspects in this case are the stressful of facing the condition that they never expected for struggling of life and the social stigma around society. Hard to accept the changing of skin color and expect the normal skin color back again are a very depressed and stressful one for the vitiligo victims. What the vitiligo victims want is just to be as like normal people. Psychology of health and illness is very much gave an impact for the vitiligo victims’ life around society as in sociology scientific study.
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4.2 Suggestions
Physical appearance is one of the biological factors that influence people’s personality, and vitiligo is the disease that just attacks the appearance of person that has it. That is why the vitiligo victims usually have a same struggling in life on a condition of mentally down, very depressed, very stressful, and feeling very bad among other people. A number of people suffer from depression because of this disease and that is the only reason various researches are being conducted in order to obtain vitiligo cure so that people can out run this depression and get their self- confidence back. The vitiligo victims are not people who need to be distanced, they are still as like normal people. The author suggests the reader to blend with the vitiligo victims.
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