When Our Skin Talks To Us

When our unconscious self wants to communicate something important to us, it can use our skin as its symbolic language.
Our skin serves as a canvas for our emotional and psychological states, manifesting internal conflicts through visible conditions. The symbolic meaning behind skin conditions can reveal deep-seated emotional issues. Self-inflicted lesions highlight an individual's internal turmoil, serving as a cry for help. We all understand how blushing and sweating provide outer clues about our psychological landscape.
Skin, a boundary between ego and the external world, exists as a threshold organ where experiences enter us and responses are displayed. Applying Jung’s symbolic attitude to our body can lead us to hidden meanings in our skin that may release us from suffering.
This clip is from the latest TJL episode, "Psychodermatology: How Skin Reveals Unconscious Conflicts." Watch the full episode here: • Psychodermatology: How...
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[@lealovesthesea]

Hives, 2x in my life. Years ago I was in a toxic work environment and they disappeared when I left. Recently while on a contract work assignment in a psychiatric crisis hospital I developed them when moved from a unit I was settled into to a unit of more acutely ill patients. I immediately recognized this time, processed it, and the hives went away.

[@MrMartinGross]

I find myself constantly itchy, all over. Once I scratch one area, I'm itchy somewhere else. I shower every day, so I don't think the problem is purely physical. Sometimes when I scratch an area, I want to scratch it more. I'm familiar with psychoanalytic ideas (Freud, Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Fromm, Kohut, Lacan, Bion), and I've begun an interest in Jung, so I'm familiar with how unconscious conflicts resurface in unrecognizable ways. I wonder if my constant itching is because I'm 'itching' to do something with my life, if something is getting 'under my skin,' or if it's a result of toxic shame, and so I'm engaging in self-harm. What do you think?

[@AmberExista]

Or you might just have a food intolerance and you should try an elimination diet.

[@mission1-2-1]

Consider Tension myositis syndrome (TMS) and symptom imperative. (Dr Sarno)

[@anisekohl4745]

Geoengineering spraying. There is an explosion of skin issues in people and animals because we are not meant to have aluminium, barium, manganese, polymer fibres, graphene oxide, strontium, hydrogels, molds and numerous other nanoparticulates raining down on us daily!

[@N28-h9m]

Very hard to verbalize this kind of knowledge. Thanks!

[@AmberExista]

I love the idea about psoriasis being a way of expressing that something is rushed and the region showing what is the thing that is rushed. For me it is in intimate regions and I have it since 13. I think all my life I couldn't accept that it's hard for me to find someone I feel truly for, so I rushed frequently into romantic relationships that would end because I am not feeling it. So I can definitely relate. Also, I am glad Joseph said that there is always a mind body connection. I also feel that they are in fact one and the same and we are under the illusion that they are separate. I am firmly convinced everything is interconnected and even illnesses without a cure have a mystery behind them.

[@debramulcahy9979]

As a child I was diagnosed the measles 8 times. Throughout my life I have experienced many skin issues, including fifths disease as an adult. Often; by the time I was able to get a dermatologist appointment the rash resolved. I retired from a 44 year nursing career two years ago. My father was an abusive alcoholic. The childhood rashes were unusual (like measles) appearing on my palms and the bottoms of my feet.

[@Morale_Booster]

This excerpt and the longer discussion was my favorite video you guys have done!! I personally found it very helpful on top of it being generally FASCINATING please more like this :)

[@dmystfy]

Very interesting topic

[@dsp2]

FROM INDIA 🇮🇳 ..hello all ..😂🙋how can we analyse about Acne according to you

[@Andrea-Rose]

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[@energeticremedies]

Well I can relate some skin issues from dentists Procedures