When Anxiety Becomes Overwhelming: A DBT-Informed Guide for Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adults You may be someone who has spent years learning how to “hold it together.” You go to work. You manage relationships. You meet expectations. You may have become very skilled at reading other people,...
Managing Low Self-Worth When You’re Also a Perfectionist If you struggle with both low self-worth and perfectionism, you may feel like you’re constantly chasing a standard you can never quite reach—while quietly believing you’re not enough as you are. It’s an exhausting loop: “If I...
Dunkley, Zuroff and Blankstein (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 2003, Vol. 84, No. 1, 234–252) defines self-critical perfectionism as a "constant and harsh self-scrutiny, overly critical evaluations of one's behavior, an inability to derive satisfaction from successful performance,...
Christopher Bergland The Athlete's Way Is the Perfectionism Plague Taking a Psychological Toll? The rise of perfectionism among young people has psychological consequences. Posted Jan 03, 2018 Source: RomarioIen/Shutterstock The first study to examine generational differences in perfectionism over the past three decades reports that...
What Is A Panic Attack? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders describes panic attacks as "an abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes, and during which time four or more of the following symptoms occur: accelerated...