Adult affects 50% of all adult women and 25% of all adult men. These statistics included medium to sever cases of consistent break outs and do not include adults with the odd break out. Many People don’t realize that Adult acne is this common and that although, like other acne, has no pinpointed cause, dermatologist believe that hormones are more than often a major factor. It is also causes just as much social anxiety and depression in adults as it does to teens.

Treating Adult acne, like teen acne should start by getting a consultation with a Dermatologist. It is good to do a few things prior to this consultation to help the dermatologist design a skin care regiment that is unique to you.

First thing to do is get a not book and keep to keep track of your daily routine. Each day write down what you had for meals and you snacks, your skin care routine and when you do it, you sleeping habits, how you were feeling that day, and the weather. At the top of each page write down how you skin was that day, some people even like to include a picture. This may seem like a lot of work but after about a month (what I usually recommend) you should see some sort of pattern in your breakout. One or more of the things you do can contribute to your breakouts. After that the Dermatologist can help you with a good skin care regiment to control your acne. More often than not you’ll also receive a skin care product(s) that include benzoyl peroxide to help with the process.

Just try to keep in mind that it takes a while to get acne under control so if our feeling depressed or have anxiety make sure to confide in a family member or friend on how your feeling. Even an online support group can help. Your not alone.

Acne is a skin disease that has become so common that we have forgotten how much it can affects someone’s mental state. Although we don’t like to admit it we all judge people by there appearance, after all it is the first thing we see.

So what does a person with acne go through? To begin you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, getting ready for your day, it’s hard to feel good when you have one pimple let alone a face full. You know your going to be judged, people thinking your dirty and ugly, even if your dressed nice and have your hair done. You feel the world staring at your acne and not even noticing the person behind it.

Then you have the try this and try that people all assuming that you haven’t tried every treatment out there with the hope that this time it’ll work. Sometimes the frustration of nothing working can be overwhelming and not understanding why your acne won’t go away.

Teens with acne have a very hard time because they are at the point in there life where they are trying to figure out who they are and where they belong. Acne makes that task harder because of the immaturity or youth, some people can be cruel and words do hurt.

Parent should make a point to talk with there teens about acne weather they have it or not so they understand how mentally painful it can be and to look past the acne to the person.

Adults with acne have personal issues that the same of teens, but instead it is with other adults especially in the work place. A lot of people don’t even know that Adult acne is actually a common form of acne because it is most commonly associated with teens. It can effect adults when trying to get a job either because of there appearance to the employer or there low self-esteem effects they performance in an interview because of feeling judged

Over all Acne effects the self esteem of the people living with it. Physically it affects each person differently and there is no cure, just management treatments. Finding the one that work for you is a long and emotional process. So if you are living with acne know your not alone in how you mentally and emotionally feel, and those of you that don’t have it take a bit more care and find out who the person behind the acne is, after all it’s what’s inside that counts!