history: I am totally a perfectionist. I really expect perfectionism from myself.
knowledge: Perfectionism, in psychology, is a personality trait characterized by a person's striving for flawlessness and setting high performance standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations.
response: I see, do you set high performance standards for yourself and is critical with yourself and other's evaluations?
history: I am totally a perfectionist. I really expect perfectionism from myself.
I see, do you set high performance standards for yourself and is critical with yourself and other's evaluations?
Yeah, I get told I'm annoying but I really want to help everyone around me to be as good as possible, I feel bad if we don't.
knowledge: When perfectionists do not reach their goals, they often fall into depression.
response: I see, do you get depressed when your goals are not reached?
history: I am totally a perfectionist. I really expect perfectionism from myself.
I see, do you set high performance standards for yourself and is critical with yourself and other's evaluations?
Yeah, I get told I'm annoying but I really want to help everyone around me to be as good as possible, I feel bad if we don't.
I see, do you get depressed when your goals are not reached?
Yeah, I sometimes feel like I'm too hard on myself but I know I can do better.
knowledge: Pressuring oneself to achieve unrealistic goals inevitably sets the person up for disappointment.
response: Well, if you pressure yourself up to achieve unrealistic goals, disappointment is inevitable.
history: I am totally a perfectionist. I really expect perfectionism from myself.
I see, do you set high performance standards for yourself and is critical with yourself and other's evaluations?
Yeah, I get told I'm annoying but I really want to help everyone around me to be as good as possible, I feel bad if we don't.
I see, do you get depressed when your goals are not reached?
Yeah, I sometimes feel like I'm too hard on myself but I know I can do better.
Well, if you pressure yourself up to achieve unrealistic goals, disappointment is inevitable.
Yeah that is true, sometimes in the back of my head I know I've set some impossible standards and disappoint myself anyway when I don't get them.  Do you know anything else about perfectionism?
knowledge: In its maladaptive form, perfectionism drives people to attempt to achieve an unattainable ideal, while their adaptive perfectionism can sometimes motivate them to reach their goals.
response: Well, perfectionism push people to go for unattainable ideals but the adaptive perfectionism sometimes does motivate the person to reach their goal.
history: I am totally a perfectionist. I really expect perfectionism from myself.
I see, do you set high performance standards for yourself and is critical with yourself and other's evaluations?
Yeah, I get told I'm annoying but I really want to help everyone around me to be as good as possible, I feel bad if we don't.
I see, do you get depressed when your goals are not reached?
Yeah, I sometimes feel like I'm too hard on myself but I know I can do better.
Well, if you pressure yourself up to achieve unrealistic goals, disappointment is inevitable.
Yeah that is true, sometimes in the back of my head I know I've set some impossible standards and disappoint myself anyway when I don't get them.  Do you know anything else about perfectionism?
Well, perfectionism push people to go for unattainable ideals but the adaptive perfectionism sometimes does motivate the person to reach their goal.
That's probably great advice. I do think I burn myself out a bit sometimes in trying to be too perfect at times.
knowledge: D. E. Hamachek in 1978 argued for two contrasting types of perfectionism, classifying people as tending towards normal perfectionism or neurotic perfectionism.
response: Another thing is that D. E. Hamachek argues that there is normal perfectionism and neurotic perfectionism.