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We live in an age of perfectionism. Every day, we're bombarded with the beautiful, successful, slim, socially-conscious and extroverted individual that our culture has decided is the perfect self. We see this person constantly in shop windows, in newspapers, on the television, at the movies and all over our social media. We berate ourselves when we don't match up to them--when we're too fat, too old, too poor, or too sad. This cycle can be extremely bad for us. In recent years, psychologists have even begun to think that many people take their own lives because of the impossible standards…
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7 editions · 2 languages- Paperback · English · 2018Picador · 368 pages · 9781447283669
- Hardcover · English · 2017PICADOR · 9781447283645
- Other · English · 2019ABRAMS (Ignition) · 416 pages · 9781468315905
- Other · English · 2019Overlook Press, The · 416 pages · 9781468316957
- Other · English · 2018Overlook Press · 403 pages · 9781468315899
- Other · English · 2017Pan Macmillan · 368 pages · 9781509874736
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