How Does Stress Affect Skin?

How Does Stress Affect Skin?
Can stress and anxiety affect your skin? Ground Picture/Shutterstock
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Are you experiencing persistent skin issues despite all the fancy skincare? It might just be time to start managing your stress. Science shows that stress affects the skin by either manifesting or exacerbating a skin condition. Why and what you can do about it?

When Does Stress Get Under the Skin?

It is worth mentioning that stress isn’t altogether hazardous. It is just a natural response of your body in the presence of a threat. To deal with the threat, your body prepares itself in the form of a fight/flight response and carries out a plethora of activities: physiological, and biological responses to adapt the body to stress.
When stress subsides, your body returns to its normal functioning. However, when stress persists for a long time, your body is also stuck in an abnormal, prolonged fight-or-flight state. This, in turn, initiates or exacerbates a variety of diseases. 
Javairia Noureen
Javairia Noureen
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Javairia Noureen is a clinical psychologist and health writer.
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