Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder ( Ocd )

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is pervasive pattern of constant need for orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control. This therefore, resents flexibility, openness, and efficiency for the quest of the task being done to perfection. Common behaviors such as checking and rechecking work for accuracy; quest or perfection results in little time for leisure activities, and surpassing the norms of moral and ethical values. Other features associated with this disorder are, being a “pact rat”, unable to work with other unless it is the way he or her way of doing things, financial views are abnormal compared to others (saves for a catastrophe), and being rigidly and stubbornness. The typical age of onset is early adulthood is characterizes by having five of these characteristics. Similar to obsessive- compulsive disorder, the different between that disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is that the compulsive disorder causes anxiety towards an individual. Whereas a personality disorder, a person behaves in a particular way in order to achieve some form of perfection in their lives. In order to distinguish between personality disorders it is important to understand the nature of the disorder.
The etiology of personality disorders is important to understand as one of the factors in finding the origins. At birthday, babies show their own personality and can prove that siblings have difference in their personalities. This is the influence of temperament. Temperament is part of personality that is influenced by genetics, which can be present very early in life. Identical twins for example can show differences in temperament. Therefore, when there is a disruption of temperance and experience it ca...

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...der. However, with the combination of psychotherapy for treatment, pharmacotherapy to manage symptoms that could be associated, psychosocial treatments, and positive communication are all-important and necessary.
Dialectical behavioral therapy typically is used as a form of treatment for borderline personality disorder, which is a model that looks at the relationship between environment and emotional regulation. The patient is unable to adapt or regulate their emotions where they are in an environment that is intimidating. This form of therapy promotes achieving goals such as no more self-harm and skill training in mindfulness, interpersonal skills, and conflict management, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and self-management. There are other short- term treatments that lead to other long-term outpatients, community treatment, and step-down programs.