Comments on: An Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

By: paula rogers

paula rogers — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:03:16 +0000

does anyone have an overwhelming desire for furniture and household items to be perfect and even it dust blows all over them or something they aren’t the same to you any more?

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:42:22 +0000

all i can say is WOW
WOW and DOUBLE WOW!!!
amen amen and amen
i hear it all i see it all i live through it all!!
are they clones from another planet?
If so I think we should make a great big rocket and send them back and watch them all try and live together. I’d love to be a fly on the wall. Oh no dirty dirty flies!!!God help us all please before we all go crazy in the process and while God is at it a few miracles wouldn’t go astray!!

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:01:04 +0000

I have ocd & fear a lot of things especially
the fear of dying & the fear of self harm.
I avoid sharp knives by placing washers or towels over them does anyone else have the same fears?

By: tired of his OCPD

tired of his OCPD — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:52:51 +0000

I too was engaged one day and he single the next. My OCPD broke up with me 3-4 times a day on bad days, but at least 1/week. He suddenly claimed to be a Baptist and said that I needed to agree to let him be in charge or the wedding was off. I am awfully patient and flexible, but giving over my self to that extent is not healthy unless you are a vegetable, a mailorder bride or out of your mind.
It has been extremely painful.
I am started to pity him because he will be the one suffering through himself.

By: msthurnell

msthurnell — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:46:28 +0000

I have a parent with OCPD. It is very hard to communicate with this person and one reason I discovered is that everything done is from the point of view of how they would like things done. For instance if the person wants to do the smallest task in another persons, home they simply must ask permission. This in itself is very irritating since they cannot work out what is important to ask about and what is not. Their explanation is that that is what they would like others to do in their house. The idea that two strangers let alone two family members might be able to interact in the house of each othe without a zillion rules and a hundred games of twenty questions every day is beyond their comprehension. It’s like they have their outward looking social antenna turned of and just cannot pick up how to get in syc and work in synergy with someone in say, a kitchen enviroment cooking a meal together.
If something goes slightly wrong there is no llaughing it off, someone has to be to blame. They redouble the permission asking game until it becomes painful and they are just about asking if they can cross and uncross their legs. It’s like asking absolves them of all blame, and since they just cannot cope with being the cause of even the slightest slip up the asking continues. If they ask but your way of doing things is different tho their preferred way they pout and do it ungraciously. People like this put social harmony on the lowest level of importance in the scheme of things whilst outwardly maintaining that this is their goal. They are trying to achieve social harmony in a way which is doomed to fail.