"It can feel good to set a goal, aim high, push yourself, and feel like you've done your best. But sometimes high expectations become a burden rather than a motivator. Perfectionism can impact your work and relationships and lead to anxiety and low self-esteem. There's good news, though: Techniques from cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can help you figure out if you're setting the bar too high and what to do about it."
"Perfectionism isn't just being organized or wanting things to go well. It often involves setting extremely high or unattainable standards, being highly self‐critical when you don't meet those standards, basing your sense of worth too narrowly on your success or achievement, and obsessing about mistakes, decisions, or what others think. Perfectionism has been linked to depression, anxiety, stress, eating issues, avoidance, procrastination, and low self-esteem."
Perfectionism involves extremely high or unattainable standards, self-criticism, narrowly basing self-worth on achievement, and obsessing about mistakes, decisions, or others' opinions. Perfectionism associates with depression, anxiety, stress, eating issues, avoidance, procrastination, and low self-esteem. A systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 randomized controlled trials with more than 900 participants found that CBT significantly reduces clinical perfectionism and improves depression, eating disorder symptoms, and anxiety. CBT strategies include evaluating unhelpful thinking, practicing self-compassion, and deliberately making mistakes to test beliefs. Letting go of perfectionism increases time for valued, meaningful, and enjoyable activities and improves mood and functioning.
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