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Aug 13, 2020 at 07:37 PM
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Aug 13, 2020 at 08:44 PM
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I've gotten much better. I spent most of my life as such a perfectionist. The internal, eternal, berating self-talk was a source of anxiety and stress and depression. I had no self-confidence. It was miserable.
I finally learned to be okay with okay - most of the time anyway. I learned to forgive myself for my imperfections, to give myself some slack. I don't always succeed, but at least now I KNOW when I'm being unfair to myself, and I can talk myself down off that ledge. I used to be completely unable to do that. |
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Aug 14, 2020 at 08:00 AM
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Yes, unfortunately. Still excelling at it.. :/
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Aug 14, 2020 at 10:15 AM
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Aug 15, 2020 at 09:15 AM
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Yes I'm ridiculously hard on myself. I would also say I'm a perfectionist and suffer with extreme anxiety if I don't get something 'right.' I have really bad social anxiety especially when I'm being watched so that plays into it too. I beat myself up for a long time, sometimes years, for every little mistake. I think self-doubt and unworthiness is at its root and I'm trying hard to address those issues in therapy.
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