Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

[Zipporah Schumaker]

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder 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.

Personality disorders are long-lasting, pervasive patterns of thinking, perceiving, reacting, and relating that cause the person significant distress and/or impair the person