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True Dough

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3. "Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to a laundry list of clinical issues:
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 07:09 AM
Sep 2019

depression and anxiety (even in children), self-harm, social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, hoarding, dyspepsia, chronic headaches, and, most damning of all, even early mortality and suicide."

Sounds like fun!!


I've been plagued by perfectionism as long as I can remember. So hard to change.

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