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Leon Garber LmhcPsychology Today |
Competing interests fuel anxiety in perfectionists.
Why no amount of reassurance seems to be enough to eliminate anxiety.
Constantly avoiding the feeling of anxiousness makes us unhappy.
Cyclothymia often goes unnoticed because it's less severe than bipolar disorder
Anxiety is fueled by the need to be perfect.
How lacking passion contributes to depression in perfectionists.
Answering parents' common questions about depression in gifted children.
Extremely high standards can make decision-making impossible.
Why you can't accept your personal flaws.
Why limerence isn't really love.
We may misunderstand the degree of choice involved in narcissism.
Shame about how we cope can deter the use of strategies that actually help.
Personal Perspective: The underlying issues of whether to make a mental health diagnosis.
How therapists may use psychological concepts to disavow blame.
Crippling self-doubt can lead to a chronic need for reassurance.
Why less means more in parenthood.
Why being good is often less than it seems.
Why being in love means being humble.
Why we may not actually want what we can't have.
Fixing your problems may not actually solve them.
OCD and self-doubt: Why you can still be a perfectionist.
Why security and status are often antithetical.
How believing in free will may actually hinder therapy's progress.
Why maturity requires us to accept our flaws.
Perfectionists have a love-hate relationship with advice in therapy.
How defensiveness backfires for perfectionists.
Worrying can, paradoxically, help perfectionists maintain a sense of control.
A Personal Perspective: How therapy changed my belief that I needed to be perfect.
Re-creating life's meaning as a perfectionist.
An exploration of the dark side of being good.
Compliments and good arguments aren't enough to help people feel better.
How to address the perfectionist's obsession with hope.
Retreating into one's fantasies is a maladaptive behavior.
Changing the distorted thoughts that perfectionists have.
The perfectionist's struggle with shame and vulnerability.
The false promise of perfectionism: Achieving lofty goals won't fix everything.
Why some people are preoccupied with being good.
How partners of perfectionists struggle in their relationships.
The underlying beliefs of perfectionistic thinking.