Perfectionism, something many care about. Most perfectionists are finicky about their work and usually highly competitive. However, there is more to it when it comes to this topic. Body image, extreme or cleanliness are some other issues that this mind-set brings on. The expression "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it" would not apply to this people. They always do want to plan everything they do and lay out their tasks perfectly.

 

It stands to no reason to be that way though. Is it important to be orderly and responsible in what we do. However, everything has got a limit. People would be inclined to be that way due to past failures though. For instance, I am a kind of perfectionist when it comes to English. Owing to the fact that my kin held me back. Besides, I may be daft, but I'm not stupid. I know what if feels like when you want to know everything about a topic or when you start thinking on the what ifs all the time.

 

How do you justify this behaviour? Well have I given you some examples in the aforesaid paragraph. Even so, I might add that perfectionists are really fussy about one thing or another. To illustrate this point, let's say you are an English teacher. You're going to prepare a lesson plan for an advanced class for the first time and you study overnight for weeks before the class so as to study all the grammar contained in that class and try to go even beyond. That aforementioned example seems unhealthy for instance, even for a teacher. Hence there is no way of being ambivalent about it.

 

All in all, I would say that this type of behaviour can indeed cause mental illnesses such us depression, OCD, among others. Hence, the need to find a happy medium in your life. You could start by not glorifying your job for example. Sometimes, you have to stand tall where you are in life. Consequently, trying to block out those thoughts that you're not good enough to do something, and that you have to work extra hard to meet your standards is imperative. Like the speaker says in the video I'm going to share. Perfectionism can take away on other areas if you do not find a balance or put boundaries on what you do. Anyhow, to round things off I'd advice you to try helping a close friend as an experiment, who fusses you over minor things all the time just for the sake of balancing their lives out.