2024-04-26 06:08:58
Performance anxiety manifests itself in particular in work addiction, but not only. Leonid / stock.adobe.com
PSYCHO – The need to be perfect ruins life. Cognitive restructuring work can weaken unreasonable thought patterns.
Aged 34 and mother of three children, Émilie has just started drawing. This seemingly pleasant leisure activity quickly turned into a nightmare. “I compared my productions to those of people who have been drawing for 15 years,” she says. “I found myself useless. As if I was going to be on their level on the first try! » A consultant in Bordeaux, Eugène* is experiencing the same type of difficulties in the basketball club he joined in September. “I constantly judge myself, I don’t forgive myself for the slightest failure. Was sport supposed to do me good? Well, often I come out of training angry, wanting to cry”testifies the forty-year-old.
These two people probably suffer from a form of performance anxiety, a disorder that manifests itself as unease whenever one is not good, or even perfect, and produces a mixture of frustration and exhaustion. It is found particularly among workaholics, but it even manifests itself in leisure activities, which can…
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