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Kary Oberbrunner Mental Health Journey

12 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A personal interview excerpt in which Kary Oberbrunner (speaker) recounts childhood-onset mental health struggles rooted in perfectionism. He describes stuttering driven by a need to speak perfectly, early self-injurious behavior (biting) beginning around age 10, feelings of chronic underachievement, and attending his first counselor at age 10. The account links perfectionism to pathways of self-criticism and either overexertion or self-hatred.

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I did struggle with depression and self injury and even you would call it today mental health as a young child and it really emerged from a standard of perfectionism. Stuttering came about as a young child and it wasn't because oh I couldn't speak or I didn't know the words but it was honestly that I had to get my words out perfectly. And I just have always been an achiever and I've always felt like I didn't measure up. And so sure enough you have two choices with that. You can either try harder or you can buy into self hatred. And that's what happened from a young age I just began to be frustrated at myself for not being perfect. And I remember Richard it started at the age of 10 believe it or not through biting. So you know I think back and I'm like wow, I don't even consciously remember that but I do remember going to my first counselor at the age of 10.