i have a harsh inner critic.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Perfectionism, in psychology, is a personality trait characterized by a person's striving for flawlessness and setting high performance standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations. It is best conceptualized as a multidimensional characteristic, as psychologists agree that there are many positive and negative aspects. In its maladaptive form, perfectionism drives people to attempt to achieve an unattainable ideal, while their adaptive perfectionism can sometimes motivate them to reach their goals. In the end, they derive pleasure from doing so. When perfectionists do not reach their goals, they often fall into depression. Perfectionists strain compulsively and unceasingly toward unobtainable goals, and measure their self-worth by productivity and accomplishment. Pressuring oneself to achieve unrealistic goals inevitably sets the person up for disappointment. Perfectionists tend to be harsh critics of themselves when they fail to meet their standards. D. E. Hamachek in 1978 argued for two contrasting types of perfectionism, classifying people as tending towards normal perfectionism or neurotic perfectionism. Normal perfectionists are more inclined to pursue perfection without compromising their self-esteem, and derive pleasure from their efforts.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am a complete perfectionist, I set standards very high for myself and am very critical of my self"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You know, i'm a perfectionist as well. People view it as something bad but i disagree"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It can have many positive and negative aspects, I think I have more negative experiences from it!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Really? What negative experiences do you have?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I am really harsh on myself when I don't meet my standards and goals, I wish there was a way to get rid of that."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ok, i understand. I'm sometimes hard on myself as well"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Luckily I have never fallen into a depression because of it, but I hear that is common. I think everyone is hard on themselves at one point or another"}, {"role": "user", "content": "you're right. But there are also positive things about being a perfectionist. :)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Very true, some normal perfectionists are able to strive for perfection without compromising their self-esteem and gain pleasure just by trying"}, {"role": "user", "content": "that's the way i am."}]