There is no doubt that the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) largely 
involved in these symptoms responds to stress. Whether people have 
an overactive SNS or have skin-blood vessel-sweat gland-nerve 
conditions that lower their threshold to normal stress (essentially 
making it overactive to within normal range SNS) or even can 
otherwise effectively control their stresses is another issue. Also 
just because a condition is psychosomatic (of or relating to a 
disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or 
emotional causes) does not necessarily mean it is reversible with 
mental/emotional interventions alone especially when there are 
potential physical predispositions that lower these thresholds.

To say your post applies to some may very well be true but to say it 
applies to most or all is highly rudimentary & simplistic.

I don't object to this post in the least but I am left curious by 
your name: david pascooe. That's sounds like a very strange 
"coincidence" considering the founder of that rosacea board is named 
David Pascoe.

Could it be equally possible that the idea that this problem is 
beyond your personal control is too much for you to bear making you 
angry and defensive & overly reliant on a psychosomatic label?

All food for thought, many thanks for your post "dp". I have no 
problem with truly looking at the problem from "every angle"...

--- In sympathetics@y..., davidpascooe@y... wrote:
> Its what got someone banned on the rosacea support board. all he 
> mentioned was that the skin condition was a psychosomatic disorder. 
> all the local support group folks came down hard on this man. My 
> question is.. if blushing/flushing is not caused by psychosomatic 
> stuff and those who oppose the idea thinking its hard to believe 
why 
> then do people get so disturbed with the idea if it seems so 
> redundant? why do they cencor him?I think when someone mentions you 
> may be causing your own problems they get angry and defensive. I 
> believe what this guy said all the way but my posts will not show 
up 
> on the rosacea board. I just hope and pray this board will not turn 
> into a filtered,promotional,cencored ideas kind of thing. If people 
> want help they need to first look at every angle ti decide a 
rational 
> desision. thanks

The Flip Side: Neuro-psychodermatology - Stress (an applied force or system of forces that tends to strain or deform a body) influence your skin & vice versa?