Spend hours baking a sophisticated pastry for a loved one's birthday, why not.
Reread a professional text several times in order to correct mistakes, nothing but very judicious.
But if we collapse in tears because the cake seems imperfect to us or that we systematically shorten our sleep time to make a job impeccable, there is reason to wonder about their level of requirements.
Generally perceived as an asset in the world of work, perfectionism over-practiced and applied to all areas of life also has a dark side ...
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Perfectionism is obviously not a pathology in itself.
Unless it constitutes one of the dimensions of the obsessive personality, it is also absent from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, published by the American Psychiatric Association.
But its excessiveness is measurable with the Multidimensional Scale of Perfectionism of Frost
et al.
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