I've been taking a lot of measures to balance and restore my skin these last few months. Things have been going well, and my skin has been healing nicely, but the thing is I can't stop thinking about it and I get stressed all the time. Back when my skin was awful, I would be horribly stressed about how bad it was every day. Now that it's healing, I find myself staring in the mirror constantly, every day, trying to figure out how much it's improved and how long it'll take to finish healing, which then leads to me stressing out over it.

I feel like this is counter-intuitive. I've read studies saying that stress can slow the healing of wounds, and I've experienced plenty of side effects from stress over the last year and a half.

So does stress really have an effect on the skins healing? Or am I just stressing out about my stress levels for no reason. I was thinking of starting a meditation routine to clear my head