One thing that made this worse for me is that it actually worked for the first 18 years or so of my life. School work was easy enough that I could be a perfecti

One thing that made this worse for me is that it actually worked for the first 18 years or so of my life. School work was easy enough that I could be a perfectionist and actually get rewarded for it. But now that the work piles up it's a recipe for anxiety and failure.