Acne

Your skin is breaking out. Inflamed spots, redness, pustules — right in the middle of your face, where you cannot hide. Medically, acne is an inflammatory condition of the sebaceous glands, hormonally influenced, especially common in puberty. But acne does not only affect teenagers. It can appear at any age — and it affects precisely the face. The part of you the world sees first. The part you yourself look at every morning in the mirror.

The psychosomatic question is not: why does my skin produce too much sebum? It is: what is pushing so massively outward in me that my body forces it through the skin? And why precisely there, where my face — my identity, my mask, my expression — is visible to everyone?

Acne is not a cosmetic problem. It is a revolt beneath the surface.