The hard to explain mental burden for dealing with a condition that effects your odor

In my opinion the hardest thing about dealing with this is, the way people that are around us that don’t understand react to it, and on top of that not letting the reactions and ignorance of those people tear us down throughout the day, I think what hurts about this is, because we understand. we hate bad smells to and we also know we haven’t provided any explanation.after dealing with this for years the feeling of being around people when we know we don’t smell right, becomes it’s own little special trauma and that leads to fear of those situations, it leads to a lack of confidence, it leads to you withdrawing within yourself becoming more quiet and small and why wouldn’t it? It’s such a helpless situation, and we’re walking everywhere with this embarrassing open wound, some people have no problem poking at. I’ve had people I considered family and friends, poke and poke and poke, until it changed me but…..I’m also not giving up, and I didn’t mean for this to be a self pity rant, unfortunately I’ve had people I thought I was close to really try to hurt me, so I don’t like the idea of giving up, I want to carve a small happy life for myself even though I’m not completely sure what that looks like right now and I really started writing this with the intention of asking you guys what methods and strategies you use to keep away the despair of dealing with this. But I would understand if you didn’t have any methods like that, this isn’t really a burden people willingly accept right away.