Perfectionism Disease

The Perfectionism Disease Perfectionism, the definition of perfectionism: is refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. The root word of Perfectionism is perfect, but perfectionism isn’t perfect. Perfectionism is a disease. Once you get the disease you are most likely to deal with the things you were trying to avoid. Dangerous side effects of this horrible disease is depression, stress, and being self-critical. Depression, is basically being sad all of the time. Why would anybody be sad all the time. Striving towards perfectionism will cause that. The little things that make you a perfectionist will turn into big problems later. Hamilton states, “Taken to an extreme, however, striving towards perfection- ism may become an obsession”( Hamilton et al. 1). Stress, is being worried,scared all of the time. Oh, but you're a perfectionist so you don't have stress right? More like the the other way around. Milyavskaya states from the article Affect Across the
This dress makes me look huge, The amount of makeup on me won’t change anything. Those are just an example of what some people say all the time. Do you really want to take the time and be mean to yourself. Because being self-critical is basically will beat you up. Nobody likes bullies, so why would you bully yourself? Why would anybody want to live with that constant fear of what if this looks bad, what if they laugh at me . That’s what's going on a in a perfectionist mind. Don’t get the perfectionist disease or you might become more of a bully to yourself than others would be toward you. In conclusion, perfectionist who are the perfectionist's clients don’t have a good life. They are dealing with depression, stress, and being self-critical. There’s many more side effects of perfectionism that wasn't mentioned. Be aware that this disease does exist, and stay away from the disease, and it’s clients it’s