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Navigating perfectionism

Brain Science: Neuroscience, Behavior

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Is Perfectionism a Shield?

People use perfectionism as a shield to protect against the three things that we don't want often to happen when we seek connection, which is blame, judgment or shame. You know, de defenses are designed to protect and to help us buffer other things in life. While too much pressure on that one defense system, it's going to break. And nobody can sain that can sustain that over a lifetime.

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