mental health disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
Introduction
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (which is different from obsessive-compulsive disorder) is a mental health condition that is characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control (with no room for flexibility or efficiency) that ultimately interferes with completing a task. People with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder need to be in control and do things in a specific way in their pursuit of perfectionism. Doctors diagnose obsessive-compulsive personality disorder based on specific symptoms, including preoccupation with details, rules, schedules, organization, and lists and a focus on doing something perfectly that interferes with completing a task. Psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy may help. Overview of Personality Disorders are mental health conditions that involve long-lasting, pervasive patterns of thinking, perceiving, reacting, and relating that cause the person significant distress and/or impair the person's ability to function. Because people with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder need to be in control, they tend to do things alone and to mistrust the help of others. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is one of the most common personality disorders. Estimates of how common it is vary, but it probably occurs in between 4 to 8% of people in the United States. It is more common among men. Certain traits that run in families—compulsivity, a limited range of emotion, and perfectionism—are thought to contribute to this disorder. Other disordersare also often present. People often also have one or more of the following: A depressive disorder such as Major depressive disorder or An anxiety disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) None An Alcohol Use None Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is not the same as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) . Unlike 