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Citation needed Sorry, not trying to be a jerk, but unless there is actual comparative evidence, I don't think one can just assert that high achievers struggle

• tutmeister 4y ago
  It should be common knowledge by now, as the problem has been documented for decades and discussed here many times.[1][2][3][4] As far as an actual citation: "Studies from Kjølseth et al. (2009), and our own findings (Szücs et al., 2020), suggest that older adults who die by suicide or have late-onset (mostly high-medical lethality) suicide attempts are often high-functioning throughout most of their life, and characterized as controlling, rigid, high-achievers, also high on orderliness (a conscientiousness subcomponent)."[5] [1]https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/01/us/higher-suicide-risk-for-perfectionists.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/01/us/higher-suicide-risk-fo... [2]https://www.deseret.com/1988/9/13/18777827/30-percent-of-teens-who-are-high-achievers-have-thought-about-suicide-poll-says https://www.deseret.com/1988/9/13/18777827/30-percent-of-tee... [3]https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/scholarly-messenger/2016/September/rcr-asking-for-help.php https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/scholarly-messenger/2016/... [4]https://everymindatwork.com/high-achievers-and-mental-health/ https://everymindatwork.com/high-achievers-and-mental-health... [5]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7655527/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7655527/
  • swader999 4y ago
    This fits what I've seen unfortunately. Thanks for posting all those links.