Acne and stress
Can stress cause acne? One issue that tends to get glossed over is the emotional aspect of acne anxiety. Acne and anxiety go together hand in hand. Many suffers are teenagers and emotions are already bubbling up and over like a super volcano waiting to go boom.
Stress plus hormones (Hormone blog post) and rapid life changes equals massive upheaval. This acne and stress axis is only beginning to be understood. I mention this to remind adults that bad acne vulgaris and acne rosacea can have severe and devastating impacts on a person’s psyche and that it’s not merely a rite of passage and easy burden to brush off.