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": "assistant", "content": "I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes, when I don't reach my goal, I get really depressed. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is depression a common symptom of perfectionism?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, it happens often. There's a lot of pressure and when we don't reach our goal, it's disappointing."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can a person be cured from perfectionism?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it's a form of OCD, so it could be tamed with help from a therapist or medication."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see. Do a lot of people suffer from this disorder?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's estimated that 1 in every 40 adult in the US has OCD. That's about 2.3 percent of the population, so yes, I believe there are a lot. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's more common than I thought. Are there any famous cases?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I assume there are a lot, since such a large number of the population is affected by perfectionism. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "How long has perfectionism been considered to be a serious mental condition by psychologists?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's been a known condition since 1978, which was when D.E. Hamachek separated two different types of perfectionism: normal, or neurotic. "}]