Sheltac

On this side of the pond, children can't go to school without being properly vaccinated. Up until now, I thought it was like that everywhere =O

But... why?

EDIT: Guys, I'm getting a few irate answers about my apparent opinion on the issue. I'm not condoning any type of discrimination against anyone, least of all deaf or Deaf people. I am truly trying to understand their viewpoint.

Hello! Thank you very much for doing this, your work sounds awesome!

I am by no means an expert in the area (I work in Robotics), but what you describe sounds a lot like the pattern of general obsessive-compulsive behaviours. What would you say are the main differences between perfectionism itself, as you describe, and other conditions such as OCD?

This whole thing seems just a way of charging students extra by packing classrooms with as many students as possible, with a shit teacher, and having the decent teachers behind an extra paywall.

Life is getting more and more pay to win.

Thank you very much for your answer! I've been taking a look at the other answers and, for what it's worth, I think you're doing this AMA thing really really well. Kudos!

So safety is a core issue, which I can totally understand, and the problem is in how one takes steps towards that safety, namely in the establishment of false relationships between cause and effect ("If I do well enough in school, my parents will be happy with me and they won't get divorced.", as you pointed out). As a complete layman, I can see how this, by itself, would lead to aberrant behaviour.

Focusing on complex trauma, you end up with a much more holistic kind of therapy, right? I.e. instead of prescribing some meds, you explore and disentangle the complicated "mess" they've got going on, which feels like a correct way to tackle the problem at its core. So, I'd like to know: what is typically the relationship between your sessions and other professionals? Are your clients also usually seen by psychologists of psychiatrists? Do you coordinate with them?

One last question (and pleeeease don't feel attacked, this is all new to me): is there a strong scientific grounding of perfectionism itself as a mental disorder? Are there studies on how it arises from different kinds of trauma? Is there some specific author I should look at to gain an overview of the field?

Many thanks once again. It's people like you that make this a cool place :)