Maladaptive perfectionism only makes it worse. For Parisian perfectionists, maladaptive perfectionism looks like people-pleasing at the expense of pleasing oneself. For procrastinator perfectionists, it looks like waiting too long and then never doing it. For messy perfectionists, it looks like sabotaging yourself by saying yes to everything while committing to nothing. For intense perfectionists, it looks like operating as if achievement will give you what only connection can. For classic perfectionists, it looks like refusing to acknowledge that no matter how much predictability, exterior
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