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Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) OCPD is a personality disorder that unconsciously affects individuals' behaviors, emotions, and responses

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is a personality disorder defined by a strict adherence to orderliness, the control over one's environment, and the openness to new experiences. OCPD is characterized by uncontrollable altered mental capacities, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility and efficiency. Individuals diagnosed with OCPD experience many struggles such as, regulating and controlling emotions, and maintaining close relationships with others.

OCPD is often confused with the anxiety disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It is important to differentiate between OCPD and OCD, as they share similar characteristics, but also differentiate between certain aspects as well. OCPD is a personality disorder that unconsciously alters people's behaviors. OCD is an anxiety disorder that has characteristics involving the presence of an obsession (an irrational thought or idea that continually repeats in a person's mind), or a compulsion (an irrational behavior performed repeatedly). Individuals diagnosed with OCPD believe that their actions and responses have an aim and purpose, and will usually avoid seeking help because they are unable to recognize that their behavior is being portrayed as abnormal or irrational. OCD symptoms tend to fluctuate in association with underlying anxiety, and often attempt to seek professional help to overcome the irrational nature of their behavior and the persistent state of anxiety they experience.

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder Characteristics

OCPD is a personality disorder that has a combinations of characteristics that effect many diagnosed individuals. Individuals diagnosed with OCPD experience an excessive need for perfection and a relentless control over not only one's environment but the nature of interpersonal relationships as well. This type of personality disorder causes individuals to also experience a preoccupation with details, rules, lists, and order. OCPD creates individuals to be inflexible regarding morals, ethics, values, and rules, as well as causing the inability to control excessive devotion to not only close relationships, but also with hoarding valuable or invaluable items. Individuals diagnosed with OCPD have difficulty forming and maintaining close relationships with others, and therefore find it hard to express their feeling and emotions in a general context or environment, and often face social isoltion. Many individuals throughout society believe that individuals diagnosed with OCPD have the advantage of being hardworking and motivated, but what they fail to recognize is the uncontrollable actions individual with OCPD experience in order to maintain what is considered as "hard work." Due to the inability to control most actions and behaviors, individuals diagnosed with OCPD often feel righteous, indignant, and angry. It is important to note that due to the uncontrollable characteristic that comes with the diagnosis of OCPD, many individuals experience symptoms similar to what is referred to as an anxiety disorder.