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The Sometimes Scary Uncertainty of Limerence

13.11.2024 10

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Should I Cut People Off or Tolerate Them?

Competing interests fuel anxiety in perfectionists.

12.11.2024 20

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Truth Is the Remedy for a Constant Need to Be Reassured

Why no amount of reassurance seems to be enough to eliminate anxiety.

09.11.2024 20

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Learning How to Live with Uncertainty

Constantly avoiding the feeling of anxiousness makes us unhappy.

06.11.2024 20

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How Perfectionism Is Associated with Cyclothymic Disorder

Cyclothymia often goes unnoticed because it's less severe than bipolar disorder

26.10.2024 10

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How Perfectionism Contributes to Social Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety is fueled by the need to be perfect.

22.10.2024 30

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Is Passion Overrated?

How lacking passion contributes to depression in perfectionists.

17.10.2024 7

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Depression and Anxiety in Gifted Children

Answering parents' common questions about depression in gifted children.

13.10.2024 30

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Help! I Can't Make a Decision

Extremely high standards can make decision-making impossible.

09.10.2024 30

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Limerence and Maladaptive Daydreaming

Why you can't accept your personal flaws.

02.10.2024 30

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Captured by Limerence

Why limerence isn't really love.

29.09.2024 30

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Is Narcissism Really Just a Prison?

We may misunderstand the degree of choice involved in narcissism.

25.09.2024 50

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Sometimes, You Just Need a Nap

Shame about how we cope can deter the use of strategies that actually help.

19.09.2024 10

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How Helpful Is a Mental Health Diagnosis?

Personal Perspective: The underlying issues of whether to make a mental health diagnosis.

11.09.2024 30

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Treatment Resistance and the Therapist's Shame

How therapists may use psychological concepts to disavow blame.

08.09.2024 10

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The Tide of Crippling Self-Doubt in Obsessive Compulsiveness

Crippling self-doubt can lead to a chronic need for reassurance.

04.09.2024 80

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Don't Be a "Good Mother"

Why less means more in parenthood.

27.08.2024 100

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The 'Shoulds' of Tyranny

Why being good is often less than it seems.

22.08.2024 100

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Control is the Opposite of Love

Why being in love means being humble.

19.08.2024 10

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Envy Is Often Based on Delusional Thinking

Why we may not actually want what we can't have.

17.08.2024 8

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The Shame of Perfectionism

Fixing your problems may not actually solve them.

13.08.2024 10

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Addressing the Self-Doubt of OCD

OCD and self-doubt: Why you can still be a perfectionist.

12.08.2024 20

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Anxiety Is Sometimes Fueled by Self-Importance

Why security and status are often antithetical.

06.08.2024 10

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Change Isn't Always Good for You

30.07.2024 10

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Do We Really Need to Believe in Free Will?

How believing in free will may actually hinder therapy's progress.

27.07.2024 8

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The Dark Side of Being Obsessed With Being a Good Person

Why maturity requires us to accept our flaws.

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Why Psychotherapists Don't Give Advice

Perfectionists have a love-hate relationship with advice in therapy.

18.07.2024 20

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Addressing Chronic Defensiveness

How defensiveness backfires for perfectionists.

16.07.2024 10

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Are You Afraid to Feel Your Feelings?

10.07.2024 20

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How Perfectionists Use Anxiety to Cope with Depression

Worrying can, paradoxically, help perfectionists maintain a sense of control.

10.07.2024 80

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Healing From Perfectionism

A Personal Perspective: How therapy changed my belief that I needed to be perfect.

04.07.2024 40

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How Perfectionists Can Create a More Balanced Life

Re-creating life's meaning as a perfectionist.

01.07.2024 30

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What Is Moral Sadism?

An exploration of the dark side of being good.

25.06.2024 40

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Why We Can't Fix Other People

Compliments and good arguments aren't enough to help people feel better.

19.06.2024 10

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Being Average Can Be Good for You

How to address the perfectionist's obsession with hope.

12.06.2024 10

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Maladaptive Daydreaming: When We Live in Our Imaginations

Retreating into one's fantasies is a maladaptive behavior.

09.06.2024 80

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How Your Anxiety Lies to You

Changing the distorted thoughts that perfectionists have.

05.06.2024 100

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Why It's OK to Feel Weak

The perfectionist's struggle with shame and vulnerability.

03.06.2024 100

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Healing Yourself With Greatness

The false promise of perfectionism: Achieving lofty goals won't fix everything.

29.05.2024 20

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The People-Pleaser Perfectionist

Why some people are preoccupied with being good.

22.05.2024 30

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The Trauma of Perfectionism

15.05.2024 100

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When Love Isn't Good Enough

How partners of perfectionists struggle in their relationships.

13.05.2024 100

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When Good Enough Doesn't Exist

The underlying beliefs of perfectionistic thinking.

09.05.2024 50

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