CAUSES: MORE THAN SKIN DEEP

Skin Problems are Often the Manifestation

of Internal Dysfunction

Stress and Your Skin…

Two things came to mind today... Regarding the observation about picking the face being common among career women in their 30s, I was wondering: Is it a way of sabotaging our success?

Or punishing ourselves for being successful?

Or punishing ourselves for not being wives and mothers? (a "good" mother stays home).

Or is it a way to decrease our feminine attractiveness so we can be taken seriously in the male working world?

Or are we angry that we have to work outside of the home and take that anger out on ourselves? Is picking only a problem in countries where there are a lot of women in the work place?

Then I realized that 3 out of my 4 sisters picked their faces EXCEPT the one who never had to support herself! She was in high school during the late 1950's-early 1960's and became a fulltime wife and mother soon out of high school.

There are so many good questions that need to be answered. In researching this book I came across the one interesting fact that there is no sign of Acne in the tribes that live along the Amazon. The doctor who had discovered this concluded that it must mean that Acne appears to be a disease of civilization.

It is also interesting to note that the neurosis of face picking is extremely prevalent among work age women. Is it possible that picking is the result of women's lib and the economic necessity after the 1970s for women to enter the workplace. No longer is being a working woman a choice. It is expected. For the women who pick, is it possible we pick due to our loss of femininity. Our culture has shifted our roles from processors to producers. Women now have to bear the burdens of financial survival and workplace competition more than ever. And for the men who pick, perhaps this reversed responsibility contributes to fears of being able to fulfill the multidimensional roles that men have never been asked to fill before. Do we feel good enough or worthy enough to fulfill these new assignments?

So much more is expected of both men and women since the sexual revolution and we have more areas in which to fail or at least fall a little short, thus contributing to more self criticism.

Aggressive behavior is more and more considered taboo in our culture, so where is it acceptable to lash out? Do we pick at ourselves at the end of the day after we have felt picked on by others all day long? Do we pick due to a lack of emotional fulfillment.

The economic demands of the American lifestyle are expensive and many times we feel trapped in jobs that do not make us happy and fulfill our dreams and desires just to have our daily 'necessities' like cable tv, eating out, cel phones, etc…

In this chapter we will look at some of the physiological reasons for skin problems, but in the next chapter we'll delve deeper into emotional issues.

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