"Manhattan is a place where everyone wants to feel special and wants to be the best. We're magnets for perfection, and we want it from everyone around us." [He says this leads to an all-or-nothing way of thinking - if you are not perfect, you're worthless - an outlook that inevitably brings disappointment]. "There's this spiraling down, this fighting against the shame of feeling you're not he best, you're not special."
-- Dr. Richard Pfieffer, Anger Management Specialist, paraphrased by Jennifer Romolini in All the Rage in Time Out New York.