After more than 20 years of studying women’s health issues, psychologist Alice Domar has come to a grand conclusion: Women are just too hard on themselves.

There is no pill that will cure this self-imposed pressure - which Domar says creates harmful stress and makes dealing with everything from eating disorders to infertility more difficult.

People will take pills, Domar says. That’s easy. What’s hard is to get women to accept what she says is obvious to men: Perfection is not attainable.

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