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How to Help Today's Perfectionist Girls Love Themselves

By Lindsay Sealey — 2017

By linking their value to approval from others, they are searching outside of themselves in order to feel good and worthy.

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Beyond the Jokes: Imposter Syndrome in Students

Imposter syndrome, alongside alcoholism and chronic insomnia, is one of the experiences key to the morbid trinity of student life; the quirks forming the foundation of every post on every university confessions page.

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Sophie Kernachan
2020
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What Students Are Saying About ‘Impostor Syndrome,’ Beloved Places and Finding Balance in 2021

“Do you ever have feelings of self-doubt, that you’re not good enough or that you don’t belong?” we asked students in our Student Opinion question inspired by Smarter Living’s guide on “How to Overcome ‘Impostor Syndrome.’”

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The Learning Network
2021
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Feel Like You Don’t Belong? You Might Have Impostor Syndrome

What do you do when your biggest doubter is yourself?

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Margaret Crable
2021
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The Top Mental Health Challenges Facing Students

Experts and researchers use terms like “epidemic” and “crisis” to characterize the mental health challenges currently facing American college students. Statistics back up these claims.

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Staff Writers
2021
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Andy Yoon | How to Overcome Post-Pandemic Perfectionism

An in-person semester means a more eventful college lifestyle and an outbreak of widespread perfectionism.

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Andy Yoon
2021
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College Students and Destructive Perfectionism

Generation Z can struggle to bounce back from the first failures they experience in college. Here's how to help them thrive.

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Joanna Lilley
2019
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The “Perfect” Problem

I’m a perfectionist, and I can’t do this anymore.

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Gordon J. Ebanks
2021
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The Problem with Being Perfect

A trait that’s often seen as good can actually be destructive. Here’s how to combat it.

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Olga Khazan
2018
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Three Practical Tips to Overcome Perfectionism

On a dreary Monday morning, I am listening to an inconsolable graduate student. Based on their state of anxiety, you would think they are on the verge of flunking out of their program or that a loved one has fallen seriously ill. The truth is far different.

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Dimitrios Tsatiris
2021
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More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism

New data from American, Canadian and British college students indicates that perfectionism, especially when influenced by social media, has increased by 33 percent since 1989.

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Jane Adams
2018
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