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I find myself wondering what other parameters folk can think of that might correlate with sets of symptoms.
Height? Birthday month? Birthday year? The time of day? The FTSE index?
The number of freckles on the left-hand side of your nose?
Invent enough personality traits and some of them will correlate with something. Law of averages!
I do. I had an alcoholic narccissitic mother. Nothing to do with infection.
Everything to do with nothing I ever did was good enough.
(I come home from school with top marks in the class, 98%. I get; "What happened to the missing 2%?")
It served me well as a lab technician. My work was incredibly accurate.
It serves me well with my interest in art. I can spot flaws, I can recognise an artist's "hand" rather than have to look for a signature.
These people should better be perfectionists themselves in order to deliver some serious research papers.
There is a difference between "perfectionism" worsening the management of an illness vs patients with that illness being generally characterized by perfectionism. IIRC for CFS research, evidence for the former is not that convincing, and the latter has already been debunked.
Oooh, I have exceptionally high standards too! I don't need to look at the price of something. If it's the thing I like - it will be the most expensive. Give me cashmere over acrylic any day. Quality over quantity, any time.
But I don't think that's got anything to do with being a perfectionist.
(I'm just a snob. )
The psychs really are good at relabelling things to make them appear to be something they're not, aren't they?
I have a particular dislike to black-and-white-no-grey and dogmatic thinking.