Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Traits, Causes, and Treatment
Obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), a chronic mental health condition, is characterized by extreme neatness, perfectionism, and orderliness. Individuals with OCPD often feel a compulsion to impose their standards on others as well as the outside environment. Famous people with OCPD include Megan Fox, David Beckham, Justin Timberlake, and Jessica Alba, among others.
OCPD Characteristics or Anankastic Personality Traits:
- Find it difficult when it comes to expressing their feelings
- Experience difficulty in forming and maintaining relationships with others
- Though hardworking, they are often inefficient because of their obsession with perfection
- Feelings of righteousness and anger
- Are often socially isolated
- Experience the anxiety that often occurs with depression
- OCPD and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are different. OCD is an anxiety disorder.
Those with OCPD will never have any doubts as to whether the way they behave or think is wrong. In fact, they strongly believe that the way they think and act is perfectly alright and that others are all wrong.
Symptoms
The signs and symptoms of OCPD may include:
- Perfectionism to such a level that it impairs your ability to complete tasks
- Formal, stiff, or rigid mannerisms
- Extreme frugality, especially when it comes to money
- An overwhelming compulsion to be punctual
- Extreme attention to details
- Excessive dedication to work even though it leads to family or social relationship problems
- Hoarding useless and worn-out items
- An inability to delegate or share work because of an obsession with perfectionism
- An obsession with lists
- Total adherence to rules as well as regulations
- An obsession with orderliness
- A strong sense of righteousness as regards the way everything should be done
- An unbending adherence to ethical and moral codes
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