Does anyone know if there is a mental disorder associated with the need to be perfect?
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OCD...Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.   Or perhaps you just have very high-strung expectations for yourself.  Many are obsessed with perfection although it doesn't make one mentally ill per say.
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I have Adhd, and "emotional" problems...I am called "disabled" and I know I have problems, but to me things are"normal" Lol, really since no one is perfect, what is a disability?
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It's psychotic to want a psychotic mental disorder...Or it could mean that person is desperately seeking attention, which would only annoy everyone else around them. :)
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Interesting question. I ask myself the same thing almost every day!\nI'd have to say that I am the way I am because of who I strive to be like. It's impossible to be perfect the way Christ was. But if I'm striving for perfection, even though I don't attain it, I know that it's making me better every day. I love to be happy because depression stinks. I love to treat people with respect because it makes me feel good to see them smile and feel important. I love to take long drives and look at nature because it makes me thankful and feel closer to God. But most of all, the more I strive to be like Christ, the less stressed out I feel. And in a world full of stressed out people, the less stressed out I am, the more I can help those who are.
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I have trichtotillamania, a disorder brought on by stress that runs in my family.  I've been compulsively plucking hair from my eyebrows, eyelashes, arms, and face since I was 8.  I can tell you from experience that two more will not grow back in place of a plucked hair, otherwise I'd be plucking 24/7.  Also, trichtotillamania is classified in with the other manias, such as pyromania and kleptomania...which I believe needs to be changed because it's more like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder...which I also seem to have a touch of since childhood.
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Well some people are just like that.  We all have a habit or a tick or do something that drives another crazy. Even if one was as close to perfect as they come that would drive someone crazy!
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Saying that you're a perfectionist is a good answer, but just be prepared to explain what you mean by that!\nGive examples of when you haven't given up on a project until it was "perfect."
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Um, just go with it, trust me, if you don't, the perfectionist will slowly start to become the beast within. So hey, it's the fucking hardest way to live for the first quarter century or so, but if you can replace feelings of lazziness with those of accomplishments, then maybe we are on to something. Cheers.\nBB
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Yup. People can say, "you're born with it" all they want. Plenty of people are born with DISORDERS. It's not like it is something to be ashamed of, anyway. I am not afraid to admit that I have an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Although I have some choice in my behavior, that doesn't make it a lifestyle choice.
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Doctor J is right. I don't know if you mean a physiological or psychological disorder. If it is mental health you are concerned with, try the following link. It will start you off with finding and getting help for mental disorders, in particular O.C.D., and give you a wealth of other information and options, as well.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.\n\nCould come in the form of ticks, specific habits or rituals that need to be performed, or things have to be in an order or have certain placement.\n\nActually there was a True Life special on MTV that was very interest.
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I think it is because everyone has their own defintion of perfect. To each individual, 'perfect' has its own limits and therefore if people or ourselves do not reach that limit, we start to critisize it. Its all part of the way the mind works towards things and the competition in order to get to the perfection. Anything below that perfect limit is regarded as an imperfection and seen as something bad. Its a thing that happens with out us noticing. Its just a natural reaction to how well we expect things to be done, and when they dont reach that standard, we critisize it.\n By critisizing, we push ourselves to do the best we can and improve the task given to us. If we never critisized, and saw everything as perfect, i think everyone would be SO lazy because they would see no point in improvement and advancing forward in life.
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I am open and honest with myself, but that doesn't mean I have to share. I'll share a few things, though.\n\nI quit smoking two weeks ago, so that's a HUGE stupid miserable I HATE IT kind of struggle. Grrrr.\n\nI struggle with procrastination, perfectionism, and not wanting to ask for help when I need it. \n\nTalents I should develop... piano, I really should practice more and do something with it. Psychology... I think I have somewhat of a talent with that, and I enjoy it, so I think that I should do something with that, too. \n\nOK, there's a few for you.
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Being a perfectionist?\n\nBeing a workaholic?\n\nIt's such a BS question anyway.  Do they expect someone to say "Oh, I beat my wife," or "I can't resist crack."
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I suppose It will be impossible to find somebody perfect\nI mean in the searching for the perfect woman what I found is that every woman has she's own qualities.\nbut something indispensable is that she have to be clean and dress well
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Me? I'm not. :-) You're right. I don't think perfection means "flawless" anyway. I think it means "complete." People are exactly what they are, exactly where they should be, and when the illusion propagated by what looks like the individual ego (which is of course PART of the illusion) dissipates everyone will know that because they'll know their true Self. And maybe I'm suffering under an illusion in all of that. But at least I'm not down on myself. Hey, I like me. ;-)
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well it has to do with self-esteem! some ppl have alot, some have little, and unfortunately many have none. also, some ppl are obssessed with being "perfect."