Monday, February 8, 2016
Here is a major error of thinking- Perfectionism.
Here’s why perfectionism is so dangerous: it is focused on avoiding failure, so we are actively tracking our failure as opposed to actively seeking our success. It’s a very different thing to say, “I like to exercise every day.” In the thought above, the person has already decided that if they don’t exercise seven days a week for at least one hour, they’ve failed. There’s no room for success in the thought above. It is negatively oriented. There is a lot of room for anxiety and depression.
Perfectionism is often accompanied by depression and anxiety. Doesn’t the statement above make you anxious just reading it?
The next time you feel your thought ending in an unrealistic, conditional way- stop and ask yourself if you are thinking like a perfectionist.
-Dr. Norton
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