This experiment researches the depths of perfectionism and how it relates to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Perfectionism is an overdependence of self-evaluation; it also defines how someone dealing with perfectionism criticizes themselves and manages with failure. People that accomplish their goals find their target goal to be insufficient and re-evaluate their standards to a more demanding and sometimes impossible level (773). A definition is not completely clear, many clinicians argue about its exact definition, another explanation is described as a person who strains toward an impossible goal and measures their worth in accomplishments. Perfectionists have a tendency to fall into categorie

s of procrastination, fear of failure, all-or-nothing mindset, and workaholism. Perfectionists believe that every problem has a solution and that even the tiniest mistake will have serious penalties.

The maintenance of perfectionism has been contributed by the underlying fear of failure. Perfectionists create a negative relationship between their fear of failure and self-esteem and the ability of intolerable failure. The all-or-nothing mindset is seen were the perfectionist person sets a strict format of rules imposed on themselves; they met their goal or they do not. Self-control is a predominant personality trait among perfectionists being a main element of achieving their goals; any substance besides the basics is immoral or greedy (781). In the pursuit of performance the perfectionist would evaluate her/himself in two different ways, first, if they achieved the goal and second, how much pain and strife was endured to achieve that goal. Evaluated standards draw much attention to failure and disregarding success. Perfectionists achieving their goals is followed

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