There’s no doubt about it – we’re going through unprecedented times, and while we can congratulate ourselves on the steps that we’ve all taken to protect ourselves and each other by heeding the advice of the healthcare authorities, our heads and minds might take a little while to catch up.  

We are going through a period of isolation and uncertainty, and it can be all too easy for our minds to turn on us, and for us to become focussed completely on something that we think we have control over – namely, our skin. We need to be mindful of the fact that stress can manifest in lots of different ways. It’s possible that your skin could be responding to recent stress in any manner of ways, despite your excellent treatment of it. 

Our skin, how it appears and what it’s going through can have an enormous impact on how we feel in ourselves, too. Skin conditions can have a huge impact on mental health, and women are even more likely to be prone to mental health difficulties as a result of skin conditions such as acne.