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Jeddy Yuan's avatar

What do you make of the notion that perfectionism is a trauma response?

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Owen Scott Muir, M.D, DFAACAP's avatar

A lot of things can be a trauma response. So I'd want to see the data. But honestly, you can take trauma, and your brain can tell you a lot of stories to avoid getting hurt in the future, and some of those can be let's be perfect. For other people --don't try.

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