Skin On Stress

When your mind breaks out on your skin.

- By Sam Writes

Stress acne is one of the ways your body and mind indicate their deep connection. You rise to find a small, underdeveloped pimple, attributing it to hormones behaving in their typical manner. What you may overlook is the late night you dedicated to staring at your screen, racing against an approaching deadline, while dealing with the stress of whether you would actually complete it on time. That constant mental storm could be the reason your skin chose to protest by giving you a pimple as an unwanted alert.

Blame it on Cortisol