Perfectionism

What are eating disorders? Eating disorders can be hard to explain sometimes. They could be a disturbance to the diet, or unknown because many individuals do not seek treatment. There are a dozen types of eating disorders but the four most common athletes suffer from are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, anorexia athletica . Anorexia Athletica, which have striking similarities to both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. This term arose after an Olympic gymnast, Christy Henrich, died from…

type of passion dancers are, there are signs related to them that are found in dancers. When it comes to dancers and their well being, Padham and Aujla state that the three aspects that are commonly related are disordered eating, self esteem, and perfectionism. In a study done by Druss and Silverman, they found eating disorders can be more prevalent in classical ballet dancers because of the extreme dedication they have to dance, although knowing they have a five percent chance of actually…

diagnosis. The DSM-IV, whose criteria is similar to Wiki’s, was forced to remove its criteria on “miserliness” and “workaholism” after a national study (CLPS) found that a majority of OCPD patients only accurately displayed a few of the criteria (perfectionism, preoccupied with details, reluctance to delegate, and stubbornness) but almost never displayed criteria on “miserliness” and “workaholism” (Fineberg, 2014.) Ultimately, criteria has to be consistent in most, if not all, OCPD cases, or it…

People find entertainment from hobbies, social events, sports, or anything that sparks an interest in our minds. As a child, we form to what we enjoy. Young boys watched baseball with their dads because they just started T-ball. Young girls, like myself, watched professional dancers because they just started their first combo class. With young minds, come young thoughts that can be falsely advertised through any media source. Dance especially, harmful risks are hidden behind the beautiful…

to apple? As seemingly everyone on the planet knows, Steve Jobs’ defining quality was perfectionism. The development of the Macintosh, for instance, took more than three years, because of Jobs’ obsession with detail. He nixed the idea of an internal fan, because he thought it was noisy and clumsy. And he wanted his engineers to redesign the Mac’s motherboard, just because it looked inelegant. At NeXT, the company Jobs started after being nudged out of Apple, in 1985, he drove his hardware team…

Depression and Anxiety is a health problem experienced by many college students around the world. The rates of Depression are on the rise, with many college students experiencing symptoms that have a negative impact on academic performance and the quality of life. According to the Center for Disease Control (2008), in 2005 and 2006, 1 out of 20 Americans 12 years of age and older reported having current depression. Lindsey, Fabiano, and Stark (2009) found that 1 and 4 college students…

considered them ruined if he found even the tiniest flaw. In the end his perfectionism paid off, for his art leaves people in awe today just as it did in the artist’s own time. Many buildings, sculptures and paintings across the world were inspired by Michelangelo, and helped shape the world of Western art.” This shows that Michelangelo was very influential to both the present and the past. This evidence proves that his perfectionism paid off because his work impacted the society both in the…

market value. Consequently, Anderson contends that if, in designing workfare schemes, policy-makers give arbitrary preference to some forms of productive contribution to society over other forms, such as care work, we encounter the problem of perfectionism. (White, 2004, 273) Hence, Anderson’s criticism based on the example of caretakers questions the very definition of “contribution” and what it precisely…

The Signature of Jesus is a book about offering Christians to live “faith” and not religion. What this means is that the author Brennan Manning wants us as readers to live our lives like Jesus; committed to simplicity, purity of heart, and obedience to the gospel. From reading and studying the first pages of The Signature of Jesus, I learned the very purpose in which why Brennan Manning wrote the book. The purpose of the Signature of Jesus is to try and influence ourselves to live like Jesus.…

burnout because of the amount of time dedicated to their sport. There are factors that predict athletic burnout. These are important to know so that coaches, players, and trainers are educated on athletic burnout and can help prevent it. Maladaptive perfectionism, staleness, self-determined motivation, and feelings of optimism are the…