Stress and Rosacea

Stress is a much used word.
How does it relate to rosacea?
What does it mean?

Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand.
And as you know as a rosacea sufferer there is extra demand by virtue of rosacea’s effects.
Stress can be caused by both good and bad experiences from any circumstance.
When you feel stressed by something going on in or around you your body reacts by releasing chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give people more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if their stress is caused by physical danger.
But this can also be a bad thing, if you stress is in response to something emotional and there is no outlet for this extra energy.

Have you ever caught yourself worrying about things you seem not to be able to do anything or worrying for reasons that are beyond your control?
This is internal stress and it is one of the most important kinds of stress to understand and manage. Internal stress is when you make yourself stressed. This happens when you worry about things you can't control or put yourself in situations you know will cause anxiety and stress. You might find yourself becoming worried about some future event or letting some your past ideas that caused pain and anxiety back earlier in your life govern everything you do now.

Stress can affect both your body and your mind. People under large amounts of stress can become tired, sick, and unable to concentrate or think clearly. This kind of stress causes your bodies natural defense mechanisms against disease to be lowered. So some people have a propensity to a particular disease which will then manifest under stress.

Rosacea is that kind of disease and stress will acerbate it.
So here is the catch for rosacea sufferers. Having rosacea is a stressful condition. Some of the fallout from being a sufferer is embarrassment about the facial redness and rash. This can cause social isolation which in turn is very stressful for most people.

So can you catch one and not go onto the next, in short how to break the cycle?

Once you have admitted to carrying stress in your body and its effects on health then there is a way forward.

All the best
Sam (“Cure Your Rosacea”)
http://www.cureyourrosacea.com