Some of you may remember when I put my beginner surf videos up here a couple years ago. It was a big deal for me because I had avoided the beach for decades because of the toll the sun, lotion, and sweat took on my sensitive skin.


Here’s an update video on my own personal transformation:

I’ll be here,
-Dr. Neal

©2012 “Northbound” by Dr. Neal

When someone gets emotionally distracted by dark marks, it’s not always easy to see or understand the real medical problem that is causing them.

This video should help clear up this situation. Please teach others by sharing this video as this misconception is causing disharmony all over the world.

©2012 “Understanding Dark Marks and Red Marks” by Dr. Neal Schwartz

The movement of The Acne Practice continues today, further illustrating that all chronic inflammatory conditions of the human body are treatable without exception.

I’ll be here,
-Dr. Neal

©2012 “Hopelessness is the Real Disease” by Dr. Neal Schwartz

Hey everyone,

I often say on the blog, “The more we observe, the less we react”


In light of that quote, I will be breaking down the common reactive behavioral problems that are commonly seen in those with acne.

In part one of this blog series, we will be uncovering and increasing awareness of the common emotional imbalance of Oppositional Defiance.

This very common behavioral pattern is defined as:

a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.

While we often celebrate this behavior pattern in art and music, it can significantly decrease the chance of victory for any doctor/patient relationship.

I believe this behavioral pattern is commonly seen in acne patients because once a patient is traumatized by failure after having listened carefully to their doctor, they begin to believe all doctors are either incompetent or out to get them. (It’s unfortunate that this paranoia is somewhat justified in our assembly line medical system)


Nonetheless, they will continue to defy all doctors even when he or she is quite competent and caring. It becomes a predictable and common behavioral pattern that is a set up for a lifetime of failed treatments.


You see, once a treatment failure occurs, the patient usually develops a deeper distrust thinking that they were “right” to defy their doctor in the first place. It’s a classic spiral of distrust, non-compliance with recommendations, failure, deeper distrust, and so on… (It’s classic and painfully predictable)


This 18 minute video vividly illustrates the emotional phenomenon that is occurring in the world of modern medicine:





After working with and carefully observing patients who display this behavioral pattern, I decided to directly address this problem in the acne bootcamp program with some non-negotiable rules. The major rules are that clients must use acne analytics to evaluate their skin and they must email in a time sensitive manner if having any concerns whatsoever.


These rules were never negotiable and the 100% success rate has always been dependent on clients participating as instructed.
The details of this relationship has been outlined Here.

With that in mind, I’d like to share with you the phenomenon of oppositional defiance that was recently found on the internet regarding this bootcamp program:

“Dr. Neal says to become part of his program I had to do acne analytics which is taking pictures and telling him which spots are oily and counting every pimple on your face and sending him these emails; admittingly I didn’t do that for the first month. Why would I? its not like the emails are going to cure my pimples and oilyness.”

Pay close attention to the “why would I?” part. This line of thought can only come from the reflex of distrust.


The elaborated sentence illustrates the behavior more vividly:

“Why would I join an acne bootcamp program and actually listen to the doctor who is running the program?”

There is a predictable reason why this person wouldn’t listen. Around here we call it oppositional defiance, distrust, and emotional distraction.

It’s the relentless and commonly seen habit of negotiating things that are not negotiable. It’s classic for acne sufferers and the inspiration to make the rules of this bootcamp written in stone. When someone breaches them, they are immediately self-removed from the program. They can restart anytime once they have recognized the breach and have promised to try better next time.

In future posts, we can discuss how acne is related to other behavioral and emotional problems such as defeatism, skepticism, pessimism, apathy, anger, reflex doom and gloom, fear of parasites, fear of fungus, fear of food, fear of activity, and various other emotional distractions.

Again, the more we observe, the less we emotionally react. This series should help many people become “good” clients in this rigid bootcamp relationship.

I’ll be here,

-Dr. Neal




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