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Perfectionism with Jennifer Kemp, MPsych

Evidence-Based: A New Harbinger Psychology Podcast

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Eating Disorders and Body Image Disorders

Perfectionism also really fits amazingly well and is often part of eating disorders and problems with body image. I actually, she developed a needing disorder in my teens when I decided that I needed a thigh gap and a flat stomach. My eating kind of went all over the place and sort of what you'd call an eating disorder. It was really tied up with perfectionism there because that sort of sense of I need to do this,. I need to look a certain way and set a certain standard to myself was part of what got me into that. Another thing is anxiety, of course. There's another book out, a really great book called the anxious perfectionist. That's because it's

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