Ive had acne for just over 2 years now, I went on every medication possible and nuked my skin to hell (got really red and really dried out) and of course when I got off the medication the acne started coming back, and I went on natural products earlier this year to heal my skin which helped but didn't cure my acne

My skin finally seemed like it was getting clear in September but then when the weather changed my skin got super dry and broke out like crazy. Now my skin is still dried out in places from the medications and I've got a bunch of spots again.

I decided to finally turn my life around. By that I mean stop being so miserable and really focus on my health. It occurred to me that my whole life I've always eaten poorly, never really exercised, always had a terrible sleep schedule, an these last 2 years in addition to all that I've been miserable and stressed about my skin every day.

I figured it's time to stop encouraging myself to be miserable so I decided to eat super healthy, take supplements, exercise 1 hour a day, sleep early, use a humidifier, and meditate twice a day. I started doing all these things a week ago and it felt great but today I got kinda depressed again and started thinking that no matter how healthy or happy I am I'll always have skin problems. I feel like maybe I'm being stupid but it's hard after more than 2 years of this. I try to tell myself that my skin has healed a ton this year, cause it has, but I still feel like its two steps forward one step back

Anyway, I just wanted to vent and write that for anyone else who feels a similar way or who's been through that in the past. I'm going to keep doing all these things and I'm going to keep trying to be as healthy as I can, maybe I just shouldn't think about it so much