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Perfectionism keeps people awake over tiny mistakes

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Lying awake at 4 AM dissecting a tiny mistake you made a decade ago is the perfectionist's curse. The inability to tolerate minor flaws keeps the threat-detection system continuously engaged, aggressively fighting off the sweet release of slumber.

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