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Here’s some body acne videos: 

The moderate kit is good for body acne unless you are oily despite other products.  If so, the moderate/severe kit. If super oily and not sensitive on the body, the severe kit.

If starting for body acne problems, make sure to email Dr. Neal and learn how to make the refined products last longer on large areas of the body.

     As you watch the case studies,  you can hear the heartache of people who have not had a clear month in many years despite incredible efforts to get well.   This type of relentless stress has a long lasting emotional impact that is worsened by every passing month of failure.

    Sometimes family or friends may look at your face and say,  “Why are you so upset?  It doesn’t look that bad??”   Although they won’t really understand, maybe this post will give them an insight into the real emotional problem of acne.  Let them know that this is not simply a superficial concern.  The real agonizing issue of acne is the chronically relapsing lack of control.    

     Those patients who get new bumps every week despite putting creams all over their faces, taking pills, and eating obsessively restricted diets develop a serious new problem.   The new emotional problem is expressed as deep frustration from Chronic Failure.   The combination of fighting very hard and repetitively losing causes a tangible stress disorder.   Add the fact that many tenacious people are unwilling to ever give in,  and the heartache of failure goes on for decades.   Any temporary progress only teases and taunts them, amplifying the cycle of emotional pain.  

   As an example,  I’d like to show you a very, very mild case on a girl who is very intelligent, soulful, non-superficial, warm, and relaxed.   At first glance,  anyone with or without serious acne will dismiss her as a someone who is whining about her imperfect skin.  However, if you listen closely to her real emotion and tone,  you will feel that the chonic persistent failure is one of the main things that distracts her.  This emotional struggle occurs despite the severity of the case.  It’s the stubborness of acne that gets people stuck in a negative emotional spiral.

 

  If you get frustrated trying to explain why you are upset to your family or friends,  try showing them this post and let me know if they gain any insight into the real issues of acne. 

 
Take care, 

-Dr. Neal

©2008  ”The Agony of Defeat”   by Dr. Neal Schwartz