Recovering From Gay Perfectionism | Gay Therapy Center

For more tips about LGBTQ mental health, visit our blog: https://www.thegaytherapycenter.com/g... Do you find yourself struggling with perfectionism? Perfectionism is pretty common for LGBTQ+ folks. Being perfect is one way to manage feeling like an outside in your family or your community. Perfectionism can be about feeling less than as a gay person. When you rewrite those stories you tell yourself about feeling less worthy as a gay person, you will feel less of a need to be perfect. Perfectionism can also offer good things, like the praise of the people we love, which is especially critical as a young gay person. Founder + Director of the Gay Therapy Center Adam Blum discusses some tips he’s found helpful with his gay clients in therapy to overcome perfectionism.