Hello @aliali,

I appreciate your very honest, open post about perfectionism and the pain that it has caused you. I am not sure of your age or your situation in life, but if you live near or with your family I can see how this would make their problems with perfectionism even more difficult. Do you have other friendships that you can cultivate, outside of your family? Can you join a support group for people like yourself?

Here is an article from a magazine, Psychology Today, that deals with the problems that come out when perfectionism takes over our lives,

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