Personality
Personality is a concept that varies from individual to individual. The characteristics that an individual is born with and acquired through environmental factors form the personality. It is known that especially the first fifth and sixth years of life are important when personality is formed.
Perfectionism
Perfectionism is one of the personality traits. According to Hollender, the concept of perfectionism is a negative personality trait acquired in childhood through learning, which causes the individual to have abnormally high expectations. Perfectionist individuals tend to enlarge and generalize their mistakes and minimize their success. They often describe themselves as unsuccessful individuals.
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“It’s All or Nothing”
“All or nothing” thinking is a “cognitive distortion”. “Cognitive distortion”, which is a concept of cognitive behavioral therapy approach, means logic errors that are continuous in the individual’s thought system and continue in a systematic way.
An individual with an “all or nothing” cognitive distortion believes that his work will be perfectly perfect or completely unsuccessful. If the person expects the work to be completely perfect, he makes an extreme effort, or if he has developed a belief that he will fail, he exhibits the behavior of not starting the work at all. If the individual cannot achieve perfection in the job he needs to do, he may develop a belief that that job is flawed and that he is also unsuccessful.
Relationship with Mental Health
This way of thinking and related behaviors can cause anxiety in individuals and deterioration in their functions. The fact that the person has high expectations and makes an abnormal extreme effort against his responsibilities are the factors that cause the emergence of anxiety. The individual’s thinking that he has failed despite this extreme effort can cause obsessions.
