Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)
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Obsessions and compulsions are about control
of self (mental) and others (interpersonal). People with the
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) are concerned (worried and
anxious) about maintaining control and about being seen to be maintaining it.
In other words, they are also preoccupied with the symbolic aspects and
representations (with the symbols) of control.
Inevitably, OCPDs are perfectionists and rigidly orderly or organized. They
lack flexibility, openness and efficiency. They tend to see the world and
others as at best whimsical and arbitrary and at worst menacing and hostile.
They are constantly worried that something is or may go wrong. In this respect,
they share some traits with the paranoid and the schizotypal.
It is easy to spot an Obsessive-Compulsive. They are constantly drawing up and
dreaming up lists, rules, orders, rituals, and organizational schemes. They
demand from themselves and from others perfection and an inordinate attention
to minutia. Actually, they place greater value on compiling and following rigid
schedules and checklists than on the activity itself or its goals. Simply put,
Obsessive-Compulsives are unable to see the wood for the trees
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This insistence on in-depth scrutiny of every
detail frequently results in paralysis.
OCPDs are workaholics, but not because they like to work. Ostensibly, they
sacrifice family life, leisure, and friendships on the altar of productivity
and output. Really, they are convinced that only they can get the job done in
the right manner. Yet, they are not very efficacious or productive.
Socially, OCPDs are sometimes resented and rejected. This is because some OCPDs
are self-righteous to the point of bigotry.
I described it in an article I wrote for the Open
Site Encyclopedia:
"They are so excessively conscientious and scrupulous and so
unempathically and inflexibly tyrannical that it is difficult to maintain a
long-term relationship with them. They regard their impossibly high moral,
work, and ethical standards as universal and binding. Hence their inability to
delegate tasks to others, unless they can micromanage the situation and control
it minutely to fit their expectations. Consequently, they trust no one and are
difficult to deal with and stubborn.
OCPDs are so terrified of change that they rarely discard acquired but now
useless objects, change the outlay of furniture at home, relocate, deviate from
the familiar route to work, tweak an itinerary, or embark on anything
spontaneous. They also find it difficult to spend money even on essentials.
This tallies with their view of the world as hostile, unpredictable, and
"bad".
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Read Notes from the therapy of an Obsessive-Compulsive Patient
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