<p>and for the first time today I realized that it can be very unhealthy.</p>
<p>Well, I am a perfectionist. If something isn't right, even if it takes me all day or all year, I will get it fixed or even start over.</p>
<p>same with rexrun.</p>
<p>im really not a perfectionist. I dont always have to get straight A's, I dont have to keep everything organized, nor do I usually care too much about public perception of me. With that said, I do enjoy success and some power.</p>
<p>It most definitely is. I am 100% a perfectionist. It can be debilitating at times.</p>
<p>Haha. I can become a perfectionist sometimes. I spend too much time getting one thing right and then I have no time for anything else. I'm still trying to stop this bad habit. I have such poor time management.</p>
<p>i used to be a huge perfectionist throughout middle school and the first 2 years or so of high school, but i'm so glad that i've gotten over it and become more laid back about things. it really is unhealthy and way too stressful.</p>
<p>I wish I was more of a perfectionist.</p>
<p>^i totally agree.</p>
<p>I used to be a perfectionist, but high school got to me. I don't expect straight A's anymore, since it's all relative anyway. One 78 will not reduce me to tears (ah, freshman year memories), and I'm much more laid back in general.</p>
<p>I'm very glad that I'm not that much of a perfectionist anymore because my life would be hell right now.</p>
<p>I used to be a perfectionist - I was really anal and a B+ would send me to tears and A-'s would leave me stressed beyond no compare.</p>
<p>I used to be in middle school and freshmen year. Actually... I was the guy who calculated exactly how much he had to do to get the 92.5 to round up to an A-, which was recorded as an A.</p>
<p>I am a perfectionist as well. It was quite a burden over the summer, as I took an intensive college course and wouldn't stop studying in hopes of receiving that coveted 'A.' </p>
<p>It worked.</p>
<p>But it was very unhealthy, and I ended up becoming sick for the last few weeks of the course.</p>
<p>I suppose it is better than the alternative -- a slacker. Just thinking of becoming one gives me the chills.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Actually, I used to be a perfectionist. Then came the summer, and a few parties later... oooooops.</p>
<p>sagar, I have a friend like that...</p>
<p>Perfectionism can be just as bad procrastination sometimes.... in regards to time wasted.</p>
<p>I never have been until now, when my grades needed to be raised.</p>
<p>i wish i was a perfectionist, then every one of my project wouldn't turn out half baked.</p>
<p>I went insane when I got an A instead of an A+ in science this trimester (I got an A+ last time). I cried in school and felt like a failure, that's when I realized that my perfectionism was unhealthy. I mean it's great when I do get what I want, but when I don't, I go crazy. So I've tried to take grades into perspective; they can't make me a better person.</p>
<p>kissmekate: i don't mean to sound so harsh, but crying over an A verus an A+ is really pathetic. A's and B's are great. and that plus sign is just for ego. that is a really unhealthy habit. people have seen friends and family die right in front of their eyes, and you cry over an A???? go out and smell some flowers. drink a cup of hot cocoa. step out of your sheltered world because if you don't escape from this spiral, it will only get worse. and that is my honest advice.</p>
<p>I have more of an OCD thingy, except I'm extreme clean not crazy (i.e. My room has to be perfect but I dont wash my hands like 300 million times or do repeated actions) I have to clean my room daily, mabye its a habit I've formed but I have to clean which includes: dusting, organizing (everything has a perfect place and postion, like a picture has to be turned an exact way) then vaccuming, after that swifiring. When I swifir I can't walk on where I vacumed and the after swifiring I leave the room and can only come back once I myself am clean.</p>