I’m really overthinking this. I get nervous when I write articles because I want them to be perfect, but not in the way someone with a perfectionist streak may spend some extra time on it and be really thorough until they were happy with it.
No, I could spend hours on one small task, make it absolutely flawless and never be satisfied. I always feel like I could have and should have done better.
Why? I fall into a different category of perfectionism – clinical perfectionism. So what is clinical perfectionism? According to Shafran, Cooper, and Fairburn in their 2002 article, Clinical perfectionism: a cognitive-behavioural analysis, clinical perfectionism involves overdependence of self-evaluation on the pursuit of demanding, self-imposed
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