i m a perfectionist.
[{"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": "user", "content": "I always have to do everything to perfection.  My wife calls me a perfectionist"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, many psychologists not only agree that it has negative aspects, but also POSITIVE aspects! It's a multidimensional characteristic to have."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think its slightly mixed with OCD.  I always have to make sure that I do everything exact, like putting all the dishes away exact"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I can definitely lead to a sort of OCD where you strain compulsively toward goals that are unrealistic and unobtainable. And sometimes you may even measure your self worth by those accomplishments or lack of."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Im glad my computer allows me to erase and retype things, I can't imagine having to use a typewriter.  I would have gone through so much paper"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In 1978, D. E. Hamachek argued that there were two types of perfectionism. Classifying people as either tending towards a normal level of perfectionism or tending towards a neurotic perfectionism. Which do you feel is you?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think that I am normal, but who really knows lol "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well it's all about self-esteem. A normal perfectionist are more inclined to pursue perfection without compromising your self-esteem over it, and you may actually enjoy chasing perfectionism."}]