perfectonism

I'm a perfectionist but only about my art. It's sort of crazy but I let everything in my life turn to shit but I can't share art that I feel looks bad or sloppy.

Everything I've read about perfectionism says it comes from early praise in your teen years and not properly working your way up through incremental steps. Basically too much too fast.

>>38974631
do you think there is a cure?

>>38974763
Idk. It sucks because I've been fired from jobs over it and I've sought help before. Sometimes I can make progress for a few months, then stumble and start all my bad habits up again.
The problem is a lot of the professional help is "just stop caring" which I hate or take this medication that'll dull your attention so you don't care. I sometimes just think I don't have the tools to succeed in a world that moves fast.

There's a book called the pursuit of perfect that I think is great. I'd recommend it if you suffer from this. It was written by a perfectionist and he's the only author who seems to get it.

For any particular action, I'm always either a autist/perfectionist or don't give a fuck and put in bare minimum effort. There's no happy medium.

>>38974917
Thanks bro Im a phd student and perfectionism makes everything worse i ll check this book out hoping to find a solution to this terrible problem

>>38975088
Well if you solve it, please write a book yourself so I can figure it out ha

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>Be good at writing fictional stories.
>Decide to write some short stories.
>Maybe I can write my way towards a book!
>Get half way through every time and trash what I've written because I hate it.