The excellent student complex can be formed as a result of excessive requirements for the child during his studies. As a result of an overly critical attitude toward oneself, a person believes that he should be the best in all areas of life, and when, for natural reasons, he does not succeed, the individual is seriously disappointed.
The essence of the excellent student complex
If in childhood a child was told that he should be the best in everything, receive only excellent grades in all subjects, be in time in general education, and in music, in art, and in sports school, a boy or girl can have an excellent student complex. Having matured, instead of making friends with themselves, such people continue to make excessive demands on themselves.
First, a person strives to be ahead of everyone to please his parents, and then he tries to do everything perfectly out of habit. It is not surprising that failures or even minor blunders can cause severe frustration, stress and panic for an individual with an excellent student complex, while another person in his place would simply shrug his shoulders and continue his life's journey.
In the subconscious of the owner of the syndrome of an excellent student, the idea came up that he should be constantly evaluated - by others or by himself - and that only by the results of such exams can he count on love, recognition and respect or not. Such people are prone to doubts about their own rightness, self-doubt, low self-esteem, reflection and self-digging.
Carriers of the excellent student complex do not even allow themselves to think that they are worthy of all the benefits in themselves.