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Stress can trigger acne flare-ups by disrupting hormones and weakening the skin’s defences. Since topical treatments often fail against stress-induced breakouts, you may need to look towards managing your mental health with approaches like hypnotherapy and NLP. These can offer more lasting relief, teaching you healthier coping strategies and renewing your confidence.
Why Does Acne Always Show Up When You Least Want It To?
Have you noticed how you always seem to get spots before major events, or certain situations in your life? No, it’s not the universe out to get you, but a stress-related breakout. Stress doesn’t cause acne on its own, but it can trigger flare-ups if you’re already prone to it.
Whether you’re preparing for a date, a wedding, or a holiday, stress-related pimples before any major event can affect your confidence and mood, further aggravating the condition. To avoid stress-related spots on your face and keep your anxiety / stress in check, we recommend booking a hypnotherapy session.
Wondering how hypnosis helps with your skin condition? There’s an intricate link between the mind, body, and hormonal system. When you actively work towards controlling your mental health, your gut health, stress hormones, and their related repercussions, like IBS and breakouts, can be managed.
At City Hypno, I blend solution-focused hypnotherapy with NLP and coaching to help my clients better manage stress, anxiety, and confidence issues. This will not only help you avoid the triggers of your mental health struggles, but also reduce your likelihood of resorting to unhealthy coping mechanisms such as alcohol or drug abuse or smoking.
Connect with me to learn more about my approach.
The Link Between Stress and Acne
When you’re stressed, your body goes into a fight-or-flight response, which has several impacts on the hormones regulating your body’s different functions. Hormonal imbalance is one of the main reasons behind acne and breakouts.
Research indicates that when stress increases, acne becomes aggrevated. Stress increases the production of cortisol and CRH, increasing sebum production. This can lead to clogged pores and is a key reason behind breakouts.
Anxiety can also lead to inflammation. Your acne may appear red, angry, and swollen, making it difficult to hide.
On top of that, stress reduces the skin’s defence system, making bacterial infection more likely and further leading to stress skin breakouts. It can also make you sleep less, affect your gut health, and lead to menstrual irregularities and a craving for sugary foods, which are all potential acne triggers.
Why Traditional Acne Treatment Might Fail for Stress-Related Skin Breakouts
If you’re experiencing acne due to stress, you’ll likely find that it’s difficult to resolve with traditional over-the-counter acne treatment, like benzoyl peroxide, salicyclic acid, or non-comedogenic creams. Even lifestyle changes such as washing your face with water, removing makeup every evening, and avoiding using harsh chemicals might not be completely helpful. These focus on the surface level, while ignoring the root cause.
Stress affects your body from the inside out, so it makes sense that the best treatment for stress-related acne is to address your mental health. When you balance your skincare routine with mental health strategies, you should notice better results when addressing your stress-related pimples.
If you’re looking for something you can do at home, try meditation to help calm your mind. Or, if you’re dealing with more serious mental health issues, it’s worth seeking help from an experienced hypnotherapist.
These approaches address the root cause of stress skin breakout by helping you avoid triggers, such as better managing academic stress, professional commitment, or personal problems. For instance, if you fear public speaking, you might need to address this fear to reduce the likelihood of dealing with acne before a work presentation.
Therapy helps you beat your self-imposed limitations, imposter syndrome, or societal conditioning. When you address these concerns, you can easily overcome stress-related spots on your face.
How Hypnotherapy Helps Reduce Stress-related Pimples
Want to know how to reduce stress spots and acne effectively? Acne hypnotherapy may be key to managing your stress-related pimples.
Hypnotherapy works by bringing you to a state of deep relaxation and focused attention, which lowers your cortisol levels and reduces the production of excess sebum. It also calms the body’s fight-or-flight response, which triggers a weakened immune system and lowers skin barriers.
When stress causes a breakout, many people end up picking at their skin, which only makes it worse. With hypnotherapy, I’ll help you overcome any subconscious or emotional blocks that you may have and reduce the urge to further inflame your skin during a breakout.
Hypnotherapy and NLP can help you carve a path that removes your reliance on unhealthy thoughts and coping methods like addiction, helping to keep your skin looking healthy and blemish-free. Improved coping strategies will reduce flare-ups and acne.
Reduce Your Anxiety and Acne with Susannah Saunders
The best treatment for stress-related acne is addressing your mental health and subconscious triggers. Hypnotherapy is seen as a successful alternative solution for managing and preventing a stress skin breakout.
You can use hypnosis in addition to following a healthy diet and an active lifestyle, getting a good night’s sleep, and sticking to a skincare routine. When you have blemish-free skin, your confidence level improves dramatically, further helping keep anxiety at bay.
I use a blend of solution-focused hypnotherapy with NLP to empower you to deal with challenging situations in a controlled manner. I’m here to help you overcome addiction, prevent stress-related pimples, and appear more confident at work and in social settings, amongst other things.
Reach out to me to find out more.
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