Medical Report
Perfectionism
Everybody knows that perfectionism is when you strive for perfection in all the spheres of your life. Vital question arises – is it that fundamental? Can the fact that there's no room for perfection discourage us instead of inspiring us to reach an ideal? And what does the whole thing have to do with mental disorders and medical conditions? One vital question seems to have been slightly not enough...
Okay, let's go into the issue more in detail. Sometimes a person's desire to reach perfection in anything he/she does is so huge and global that it turns into a sort of mania and starts equaling mental disorder.
Of course, perfectionism is nothing serious if compared to schizophrenia. Why? Because as a rule people who suffer from schizophrenia are unable to work or even to socialize normally. Sometimes they are disabled. Most of them are so much inside themselves that they are unable to perform usual everyday activities – daily chores or things like preparing food or even going to the toilet...
What can we say about perfectionists? Of course, their hyper excessive striving for perfection often prevents them from working and socializing properly and sometimes even challenges their not too high self-esteem, however, now that we have compared, don't you think that perfectionism is a bit more than slightly serious than schizophrenia?
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