Description:
Is perfectionism just a personality trait—or a window into deeper neurobiological patterns?
In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, we explore how perfectionism—often admired, sometimes pathologized—intersects with psychiatric conditions like anxiety and OCD. Featuring insights from Dr. Steve Rondeau, we examine how EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG) can illuminate brain activity linked to cognitive rigidity, hypervigilance, and compulsive tendencies.
We’ll discuss how certain EEG patterns reflect the underlying struggles behind “high-functioning” anxiety and obsessive perfectionism, and how these findings can guide more accurate diagnoses and targeted interventions. This episode also challenges the idea of perfectionism as a benign trait, raising important questions about how psychiatric frameworks categorize—and sometimes miss—the full picture.
Whether you're a clinician, researcher, or someone who's ever felt imprisoned by their own standards, this episode offers a science-based, compassionate view of how the brain shapes our striving and our suffering.
