Blog # 9 OCPD: Are you one of us?

Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder is a disorder which differs from OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Mainly OCPD, are those who are bound to be perfectionists while persons with OCD put themselves on excessive rituals.


Here's a video I found at Youtube to have a better understanding before reading my reactions/thoughts below.

I created my own checklist basing it from PsychCentral:

• Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost*
• Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion (e.g., is unable to complete a project because his or her own overly strict standards are not met)
• Is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships (not accounted for by obvious economic necessity)
• Is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values (not accounted for by cultural or religious identification)
• Is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value
• Is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things*
• Adopts a miserly spending style toward both self and others; money is viewed as something to be hoarded for future catastrophes
• Shows significant rigidity and stubbornness*

*Rarely

Those sentences which I emphasized (bold) are those who I feel are obviously mine. 

These symptoms started to happened to me at the age of 17 or 18 years old and it was developed when I was at my toilet training age.


But at least at my 17th/18th year I knew and understood myself.


It's sometimes annoying to other people and of course (sometimes even to my self).

But through time, I realized that I know how to control this mild disorder of mine so it doesn't seem to be a problem to me. I got used to the criticisms of other people. And oh yes, I'm proud of this disorder because through this Cluster C Personality Disorder, I excelled in the things that I loved and love to do.


God bless!