Perfectionism

effects on a child. Many children of alcoholics or COA's develop low self-esteem, loneliness, fears of abandonment, and chronic depression. A COA also may feel responsible for problems of the alcoholic parent. Older COA's also have symptoms of perfectionism or hoarding (Huffner). Second, what does the alcoholic do? In many cases the alcoholic is very abusive…

I am a huge perfectionist, which is so annoying and exhausting. Due to my perfectionism, I have a need to be good at everything I do and to make it as close to perfect as possible. For instance, I can take an elective class outside of my major that I could not care less about such as art or music. Even though I do not think that artistic…

bring over from their professional to their own lives, and back again. To repress their feelings, People with the ISFJ personality type are private and very sensitive, making their feelings a big deal. Overload themselves, their strong senses of perfectionism combined with this version to emotional conflict to create a situation where it is far too easy for ISFJs to overload themselves or to be overloaded by others. So as you see there are many strengths about ISFJs and many weaknesses about…

Bassetti, Chiara. “Male Dancing Body, Stigma and Normalizing Processes. Playing with (Bodily) Signifieds/ers of Masculinity.” Sociological and Anthropological Research. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Department of Sociology and Social Research. University of Trento. 20 Jan. 2014. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. Bassetti explains that there are certain stereotypes that are placed on man dancers. His article examines, how can the idea of males dancing be socially normalized. During his 3…

meet a quota that only demands more. Falling into the trap of desiring for something one cannot have leads to circular dissatisfaction with one’s physical appearance and exerts energy into grasping a perfectionism that is out of reach. These women live every day attempting to achieve goals of perfectionism impossible for mankind and label themselves disgraceful when the natural, misinterpreted as an error, occurs, and society plays women into a loop of coveting unrealistic states of flawlessness…

The idea that behavior is related to a person’s natural tendencies or temperament has been around for at least 2,400 years. This concept has been observed for centuries and verified by science that people fall into four categories. The categories being the melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine, and choleric. Often confused with personality, ones temperament is actually a cluster of traits that causes a person to do what they do. A temperament represents natural traits with which a person is born.…

The underlying diagnoses of any psychological disorder are the symptoms and behavioral problem. This domain was the easiest to recognize among the other domains due to the severity of their problems. The criteria that I want to focus on that is in the DSM-5 is “Craving to use the substance is strong.” (textbook, 2015. 287) Kate has been sober for over nine months and still craves alcoholic beverages, its in her instinct to want what she cant have, she reminds herself of how great her life is…

Their research suggested that students who show traits of perfectionism or who are preoccupied with seeming perfect do not seek help when it is needed for fear of being seen as a failure. Perfectionists tend to blame themselves for perceived deficits and have an increased sense of personal responsibility. Retraining…

Eating Disorders in Sports Eating disorders are significant problem in sports. Females are affected the most by eating disorders because of the appearance they hold while playing the sport. The sports that have the most athletes with eating disorders consist of figure skating, dance, swimming, diving, ballet, running, and bodybuilding. These sports are also referred to as “lean sports” where a certain appearance or weight class is needed to participate in. Eating disorders also tend to be…

Writing the first draft of a paper is definitely the most difficult part of the writing process for me. Perhaps, this is because pulling together a piece of writing out of thin air (or less seemly places) is not easy. Even as I type this one page response, I struggle to connect my thoughts and ideas in a cohesive and meaningful way. My writing process generally involves me thinking, over thinking, and then thinking some more, before anything even makes it past my fingertips. Writing badly on…