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When social perfectionism creates endless worry cycles

I keep checking if I said something offensive in conversations from three days ago and texting people to apologize.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The need for social approval has turned every interaction into a test that can be infinitely failed in retrospective analysis.

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