The Perfect Judge

Perfectionism: Striving for flawlessness and setting excessively high performance standards accompanied by overly critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations.

Judgmentalism: Making judgments about the conduct or attributes of ourselves and others; a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something or someone.

Perfectionism and judgmentalism seem to go hand-in-hand. I’ve noticed that whenever I judge myself as being unworthy, perfectionism is usually the trigger. The behavior pattern begins every time I experience feelings of inadequacy, and in an effort to prove my worthiness, I overcompensate by trying to be perfect. When I fail to reach that unrealistic and unattainable standard, I once again feel unworthy. What a vicious cycle!