Borth first began seeing Dr. Alexander Rivkin, one of the leading experts on non-surgical aesthetic procedures, when she was dealing with acne in her 20s, but it took over a decade until she felt ready to bring up her scars.

By that time, the actress had “come through the storm,” sought treatment and accepted her mental illness as a disease. But because of the scars she carried on her wrist, she was forced to “relive the trauma over and over again” — both at work, in the conversations she had to have before going on camera, and in her professional life.

“It really does have an effect on you,” she says. “You get a look. I always felt that it was a look of someone feeling bad for me, of someone feeling sorry for me. Or sometimes nasty looks of someone judging me.”

Finally, after trying “anything you can think of” to lessen the appearance of the scars, several years ago Borth showed them to Rivkin and asked him if there was anything he could do to help.

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