Key points

Unbeknownst to others, perfectionists often believe that they're objectively special.

The pressure to be perfect carries the significant risk of mental health struggles.

Challenging the perfectionist's core philosophy of the world can help mitigate their existential angst.

Perfectionism is philosophically encapsulated by an existential conviction. Many perfectionists are not only certain of the objective validity of their rigid way of living; they’re also emboldened by the sense that their lives have an objective meaning, afforded to them in the way a god may grant his messiah a grand objective. Peers and loved ones question the perfectionist’s obsessiveness because its root is often hidden, protected from the slings and arrows of reason. Perfectionism persists in large pa

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