I am a full time college student (17 credits) and a full time worker (35-40 h/week). I am a pre-med major and I work as a phlebotomist at the local hospital, TYPE A personality and once identified as an (HG) child. However, I am feeling so stressed out, but instead of slowing down, I keep going and going, and recently I fell ill because of the amount of pressure I put on myself to perform with excellence; I went to the hospital today to see if I had the flu and the results came back negative; the doctor said it may just be a stomach virus, however, I did not tell him about the stress in my life.
My other colleagues said that my body just may be tired because I work all the time while trying juggle school, novel and mathematics journal publications, and a healthy family life.
I think this will to excel may be starting to work against me. Is this perfectionsim? Is this perfectionism on the verge of become neurotic in nature? And is perfectionism to the point of illness a common situation within the gifted population? And lastly, how can this be fixed?
