Monday, April 15, 2019

Grad School Perfectionism creates stress, anxiety and depression rather than excellence

Grad schools are usually the final stage of structured education and the transition to a desired professional or academic identity.

When you look to yourself as the future of your field professionals. There is usually a feeling that it is the key to entering an academic or professional career "making or breaking - it". This is also the point of academic freedom and responsibility for self-definition and self-correction, because you personally establish yourself as the authority of your field.

This situation is both a challenge and an opportunity. Since their professional future imagination is unresolved, it is not surprising that most graduate students work very hard and make their best efforts... but for some students, this shift is a psychological turning point. For students who have tended to define themselves through academic excellence, this sometimes creates a situation where their demand for achievement leads to an "overvalued idea" about doing it. from

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There is a difference between the sensitivity of graduates driven by positive and negative stress and the sectors in which they find that they are providing different levels of stress or reward.

Therefore, the level of perfectionism varies from person to person, and the situation varies, depending on the value of you or other people in your life to the achievement of the college. [For example, you may be perfect for a school project, but not perfect for housekeeping.] But when perfectionism has problems, it tends to appear in one's life in many places.

Four signs of perfectionism

  • Set very high standards and attach great importance to these standards. If you don't meet these standards, you will feel like you will become a second-rate person.
  • Focus on details, rules, checklists, orders and organization.
  • Concerns about errors and negative reactions. I tend to interpret mistakes as failures and believe that you will lose respect for others because of mistakes.
  • I doubt your ability to perform tasks.

Note: Perfectionism should not be mistaken for hard work and excellence

Originated from this family

Anxiety and attention to error distinguish perfectionism from healthy endeavor and the desire to pursue excellence. The root causes of these problems can usually be found in childhood.

Perfectionists often resonate with the following statements:

  • "My parents are looking forward to excellence."
  • "I was punished for being imperfect."
  • "I can never reach the standards of my parents."

These internalization standards were developed in the early years and may be automatically transferred to professors, supervisors and the entire academic department so that they receive the same overheated approval wishes and fear of initial rejection of family members.

Perfectionists are definitely better than average:

  • Set yourself high goals that are difficult to achieve and treat yourself as a failure when they are not met.
  • I feel that others have set unacceptable standards and goals for them, and believe that they must achieve these goals in order to be recognized by others.
  • Set unreasonable high goals and standards for others, and then be hostile when others can't, won't or won't let them down.
Human and non-human solutions:

    Because perfectionism leads a person to think of supervisors and professors as potential supercritical others, it reduces the likelihood of seeking help and guidance in their most specialized areas. Because perfectionism exposes self to a person with flaws and wrinkles, so terrible and shameful, it turns one person away from others to obtain human comfort and adjustment.

Perfectionist students can turn to non-human solutions instead of asking others for help, support and realistic views of their projects, such as:

  • Self-medication with drugs and alcohol to reduce physical stress or escape addictive computer games... even excessive housework to distract them
  • Use performance enhancing stimulants to increase the ability of their stimuli to produce at a non-human rate.
  • Unconsciously neglected and neglected "hardware solutions" that lead to perfectionist pressure. The computer crashes at the right moment, leading to psychologically acceptable delays and reactions.
  • Mindset solutions: Sustained high self-doubt, self-criticism, isolation and anxiety can become too unmanageable to deal with psychology and lead to collapse. Physical illnesses that are most susceptible to stress, headaches, stomach problems, and asthma are exacerbated. Although they are physically distracted, they provide a much-needed psychological response. Often, students who respond to stress are also affected in this way because the child is considered by the perfectionist parents to be the only acceptable reason to break school efforts when feeling sick.
In psychology, perfectionism is from

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 A "defense." Perfectionism stems from the desire to fully control the situation. It attempts to eliminate the confusion, uncertainty and randomness that cause anxiety.

The fact of perfectionism is a very high price.

    Because perfectionism refuses to sympathetically recognize human limitations, it continues to undermine self-esteem. It makes us unable to accept the shortcomings and weaknesses caused by our personal uniqueness, and we must accept these shortcomings and weaknesses to accept ourselves. Because it raises inhuman standards about self and others, no matter how much good work is done, it is impossible to feel success, achievement or pride. At the graduate level, primitive thinking became part of the skill set that the academic curriculum sought to develop. It also limits or prevents creativity when perfectionism limits spontaneity, flexibility, and the willingness to take risks and explore imperfect partial reactions. Unbelievable extreme demands, perfectionism can lead to the same extreme anxiety, despair and despair... and the loss of a realistic view of the situation, because thoughts and emotions are entangled endlessly, trapped in the imagination The impossibility between the impossibility and the [same] is not to live up to the shame of these heinous standards. In the face of feeling impossible, you will be psychologically "squatting", leading to depression.
Dealing with perfectionism is a challenge that leads to true personal development.

The good news is that since most of the problems are internal to the patient, there is usually no need to quit the "impossible" demanding plan or take up arms to counter the "abuse" academic system.

Perfectionism is a kind from

barrier
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 Psychological and professional development.

Fear of not being able to "perfectly" cope with challenges often leads to delays and avoiding stimulating but more risky challenges. Perfectionists can actually work from

below
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 Their true performance levels avoid any possibility of failure. Research and writing may be limited to areas that feel safe and easy. The amount of academic work may be limited, the style is rigid, or it depends entirely on the preferences of others.

Because the benefits of laying down this burden are real and important, it is worth the effort to perfectionism.

What is usually needed is an internal reality check. Since many perfectionism begins in family life, it is often helpful to sort out the true origins of your ideas by thinking about making you a valuable person. When you look at the roots of the perfectionist ideals of stress, it may be helpful to seek the support of a trained counselor. Sometimes the most needed is compassionate and encouraging people's contact, which can make you feel at ease that you as a person outside of learning is valuable and valuable in the world.

The convenience of not feeling perfect:

  • Higher, more real self-esteem and confidence.
  • Better, warmer, and richer personal and professional relationships.
  • More flexibility, creativity, curiosity and exploration.

Dealing with perfectionism can lead to better health, less psychological distress, improved interpersonal relationships both inside and outside the school... and paradoxes, better, more creative academic production. Putting aside perfectionism creates time and psychological space for self-exploration and self-creation outside the academic realm, and leads to a richer human life.





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