One Man, One Mission, to rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all.

The Anxiety Guy, Dennis Simmsk, shares his personal transformation from living a life filled with overwhelming worry

to becoming a full-fledged positivity machine.

A leading authority and generalize anxiety, Dennis gets to the truth of your mental health challenges

and sets you on a path to transforming each and every area of your life.

Here he is, the one and only, the Anxiety Guy.

Warrior, welcome to episode number 116 of the Anxiety Guy Podcast on the show today.

I'll be talking about living with anxiety and perfectionism,

something that so many people today are going through, the cycle, not recognizing where it comes from,

what keeps it going, and so forth.

So today I'm going to be tackling this issue so that you can see whether or not perfectionism is causing you or someone you know

Further anxiety further weight on their shoulders further heaviness in their lives.

We're going to make that person a little bit lighter today to examine this and to go a little bit deeper into perfectionism.

Now, perfectionism is perceived as being equal

to happiness, success and achievement for so many people. They believe that if they're

not perfect, if they do not practice perfectionism, that they are failing.

They will be unhappy or unsuccessful or not achieve certain things in their lives.

In my opinion, perfectionism in today's world comes from an idea way back in childhood

that by being perfect, child gains a parent's love or meets another human need.

Can you relate to that?

It also increases their chances of survival. Now I'm not talking about life or death survival

I'm talking about social acceptance. I'm talking about education. I'm talking about

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