What can excellent student syndrome lead to?

Excellent student syndrome – is a special kind of mental disorder in which children and adults exaggerate and idealize their abilities, which can lead to neurosis, apathy and depression.

The essence of the syndrome is that the sufferer's main need – to receive constant approval from others. Typically, this disorder is formed in childhood due to excessive parental demands on the success of the child.

Main symptoms:

1. Excessive responsibility for any situation that arises;

2. Excessive demands on themselves;

3. Inability to set priorities

4. Wish to be the best in every field

5. Inability to set priorities

6. Wish to be the best in any field

7. Inability to lose.

The consequences of otlichnik syndrome:

• emotional exhaustion

• fatigue

• conflicts with family and friends

• below self-esteem.

How do I get rid of otlichnik syndrome?

• allow yourself not always meet the expectations of others.

• decide what is more important to you: always achieve the result even to your detriment, or your own interests.

• understand, but do people around you really expect that you will always act on "excellent"? We often tend to attribute things to others that they don't really think.

• allow ourselves the right to make mistakes.

• stop comparing ourselves to others.

• want the excellent student syndrome no longer govern you. r

• eact to events with a positive attitude, try to see positive things in the situations.