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Aware & Aggravated

14. Perfectionism Feels Like A Brain Defect

Aware & Aggravated

Aware and Aggravated

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Unknown, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Experiences of how I handle perfectionism that applies to every single aspect of life and won't turn off. I also share the impacts that disrupt setting goals, nothing ever being good enough, not being able to have a routine, and the experience of extreme isolation. 

 

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0:00.0

Okay, the title being what it is and me starting this off giggling in a good mood.

0:06.7

Weird.

0:07.2

But hi, friends.

0:08.5

I want to talk about perfectionism and how I think it's a brain defect.

0:14.3

Because all the videos I've watched and all the different people I've seen talk about perfectionism,

0:18.6

it kind of goes into like overthinking and anxiety and shit like that. I want to talk about perfectionism. It kind of goes into like overthinking and anxiety and

0:22.6

shit like that. I want to talk about how my brain is and talk about perfectionism from the

0:28.5

lens that I experience it because it's not something that I've ever lived without. It's not

0:34.2

something I can turn off. And since I can remember, since I was a little kid, I always knew my brain was a little different. It was a little off. Like, I didn't see things the way

0:42.8

other people did. And I never really appreciated things how they were. I was constantly changing

0:50.3

them. And y'all know I talk about it all the time. I'm a whole different person every

0:55.7

two, three months, whole different, like physical, mental, everything. My brain automatically,

1:02.3

without trying, spots and just knows how anything can be improved. Any small thing that can be

1:10.3

improved or changed or tweaked, my brain just

1:13.6

does it. It spots it and it knows it. It's not that I'm trying to think about it. It's not that

1:18.8

I'm unhappy with things and I'm constantly nitpicking things to see how they can be better. And this

1:25.0

goes with everything. The way I talk, the way I walk,

1:28.9

the way other people are, the way other people look, the way I dress, the way that houses are built,

1:33.8

the way that gold looks, certain shades of gold, the way that architecture is, the way that social

1:40.1

media is, the way that videos look, the way that my set is, if I look a little pale,

1:44.3

it's because I was sick the past couple days, but the little light behind me, I didn't have it

1:48.2

on in my last episode, pissed me off. But the whole thing with perfectionism and my brain,

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