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Another factor determining compulsivity is the frequency of the activity (Kafka, 1993). Some of these children do eventually succeed, although this negatively motivated "success" usually comes at the high price of guilt, compulsivity, generalized anxiety and, perhaps later, stress-related medical problems. The patient may then adapt to the pulling and tugging of autonomic impulses, adapt to those diffuse restive and driven feelings by organizing and sublimating these pressures into traits of compulsivity and perfectionism. |
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