I definitely think stress influences acne. I mean, anytime you're stressed that raises cortisol in the blood. Like you, I never had serious acne problems until I went through a traumatic experience. It's forever altered me.

I deffo think stress activated mine -- but it's hard to teach yourself to 'not stress' it's kind of a circle.. You stress which causes acne, then the acne causes you to stress haha!

Same here, my skin was very good, I only broke out a little bit during TOM. Then I had a sort of traumatizing experience that caused me a lot of stress and now I get zits all month long. It's hard to not be stressed because the more I break out the more stressed I feel

Yeah like you guys said the acne leads to more stress, im trying to just not care anymore and see if that works cause trying the whole positive things just never works out for me even though i want to be positive so damn bad.