A student from Texas has spoken out about her rare condition that causes her to sweat ten times more than other people.
In fact, 20-year-old Sophie Dwyer sweats so much that her clothes get soaked and freeze over in the winter.
Sophie has hyperhidrosis, which causes her to sweat profusely from her hands, feet, and armpits. This leaves her able to wear only black and white clothes, needing to drink nearly six litres of water a day to replace moisture, and forced her to abandon her dream of becoming a doctor.
As you can probably imagine, it was quite difficult for her growing up. She was diagnosed with the condition - which affects between one and three out of every 100 people - in her early childhood.
Kids were mean to her, and she was left embarrassed by a teacher who thought that she had wet herself.
However, she now has an Instagram account on which she talks candidly about her condition.
Sophie said: "I sweat so much that I'm pretty much always uncomfortable.
"But winter is by far the worst time. It's really horrible at the moment, because I'm sweating just as much but the sweat runs cold.
"I have to dress up warmly, but I know that the sweat will start to soak through the layers, which then starts to freeze making me even colder. There's no way I can win, and it can make me really depressed sometimes."
Sophie's parents noticed that she sweated a lot when she was a kid but thought nothing of it. Then, once she started school, they began to see that it was causing her problems.
Sophie continued: "I was constantly having to dry my hands on my clothes at school, to the extent where they'd always be wet.
"I'd leave puddles on my work and kids wouldn't want to get anywhere near me.
"Obviously, at that age, all the kids laughed and it was very upsetting for me, as an eight-year-old, to be made fun of in front of so many people."
Sophie has tried a lot of treatments, including iontophoresis - immersing the hands in water, and passing an electric current through it - but nothing has worked so far. Also, Sophie can't afford the $1,500 (£1,150) for Botox treatment.
There are simple things that she can do, though, like wearing only certain clothes and carrying a towel around.
But all this has made dating tough.
Sophie added: "I once told someone I was on a date with about it - as I always do whenever I meet someone - and he took it fine, but then kept on referencing it and making jokes about it throughout the date.
"I was thinking, 'Can we just move on?' I don't like the fact that people often define me by it."
Despite all of this, her hyperhidrosis isn't something that she feels she should be ashamed of, and she shares things freely on her Instagram account and tries to remain upbeat about life.
She concluded: "When you have a disorder like mine that you can't control or stop, you can either let it make you miserable or start to own it.
"So I started to own it, openly telling people about hyperhidrosis and how it affects me. I think people respected that.
"I feel like I have to embrace this, not to shy away from it and pretend like everything is fine.
"I'm going to spend my life living with this - so I have to face up to it."
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