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've always been a perfectionist. I absolutely need to have thing as flawless as possible. It makes life extremely hard most of the time."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That must be a hard way to live."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Psychologists agree that there are positive and negative aspects of it. It really does push me to do better, which is one positive aspect."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats good, I could not live like that."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's weird but I actually get a lot of pleasure when I end up meeting my own super high standards."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's good. Do you ever take a break?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The only time I take a break is when I fall into a deep depression. That's usually when I've failed to meet my goals."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sorry to hear that. I have never been depressed."}]