What Is a Compulsive Personality?

Obsessive personality

Overview of obsessive personality

Obsessive-compulsive personality is a type of personality disorder. It is a deformed and deviated personality during the development of the personality. It shows a fixed and persistent maladaptive behavior. It usually starts from childhood and adolescence and stays for life. A personality that deviates from the norm. It is characterized by rigidity, stubbornness, and lack of resilience. At the same time, suspicion and excessive caution caused by the insecurity that exists deep within the individual. In addition, because it requires perfection, but lacks confidence, it leads to repeated checks, excessive anxiety, and attention to behavior details.

Obsessive-compulsive personality

Patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder from early childhood (children and even early childhood) have shown personality traits such as excessive pursuit of perfection, planning, excessive neatness, attention to detail, rigid behavior, stubbornness of ideas, and fear of making mistakes. The symptoms of patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder are realistic. Sometimes these behaviors can help the patient's life or work in a positive way. The symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder are often ridiculous, obsessive-compulsive ideas are often an external manifestation of some kind of internal anxiety. Compulsive behavior can only relieve internal anxiety, does not help patients, and often seriously affects patients' normal life and work. These actions are painful, but they cannot be eliminated.

Compulsive personality therapy and prognosis

Patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder will show symptoms similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder under stress, but these symptoms will basically disappear after the stress is relieved, and a few will develop obsessive-compulsive disorder. A person with obsessive-compulsive disorder can have no obsessive personality before the illness. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder are not easy to treat. The latter can be treated with drugs, the former is ineffective.

Analysis of the causes of compulsive personality

As far as the available data point to family education, research by psychologists has found that parental divorce and parental abandonment are the main reasons for children's personality disorders, because children do not get the love and care of their parents, and emotional indifference leads to children's interpersonal communication. Keeping a long distance and showing inconceivable and difficult to contact, it is impossible to maintain a warm, warm and intimate relationship with others. Although they also contact the society, they do not have the ability to understand and share the emotions of others, nor can they Communicate with others mentally and emotionally.

Other situations point to the way parents educate themselves. Parents are moody, moody, or indifferent, or even cruel, demanding, or over-indulged. There are no principles for rewards, punishments and education, and lack of consistency in children's education Children are at a loss and have no clear sense of self-identity.

Compulsive personality

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is a more common personality disorder. According to the Shanghai Youth Mental Health Survey of 1988, the number of this type of personality disorder accounts for 5% of the total number of psychological disorders.

Compulsive personality symptoms

The "Chinese Mental Illness Classification Scheme and Diagnostic Standards" (CCMD-2R) describes the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder as:

1. Doing everything requires perfection, step by step, and methodical, so sometimes it will affect the efficiency of work.

2. Unreasonably insist that others must also do things strictly according to his way, otherwise they are very unhappy and uneasy about others.

3. Indecision, often postponing or avoiding decisions.

4. Often feel insecure, exhausted, repeatedly consider whether the plan is unveiled, check and inspect repeatedly, for fear of negligence and errors.

5. Stick to the details, even the life section should be "programmed", feel uneasy or redo if you don't follow certain rules.

6. After completing a job, there is often a lack of pleasant and satisfying experiences, and instead it is easy to remorse and guilt.

7. Be strict with yourself, overindulge in duties and ethics, have no hobbies, be cautious, and lack friendship.

A patient's condition meets at least three of the above items before a diagnosis of compulsive personality disorder can be made.

Compulsive personality behavior

There are three aspects to specific behaviors of compulsive personality:

(1) A feeling of insecurity is always shrouded in my heart, often in a state of inexplicable tension and anxiety. For example, after the door is locked, you must check it again and again, worrying about whether the door is locked. After writing the letter, you should check repeatedly whether the stamp is pasted, the address is written correctly, and so on.

(2) Too much thought, always unsure of what he is doing, always thinking that the requirements are not met, and as soon as others doubt it, he feels uneasy.

(3) Behaving according to the rules, I don't know what to do. I don't have many hobbies, but a lot of rules and regulations. Handle things in an orderly, tidy, and strict manner, but be quick to the rhythm, things suddenly come overwhelmed, difficult to adapt, slow to accept new things. In short, obsessive personality always gives the impression of being rigid, dead, and lacking vitality.

Causes of Compulsive Personality

The formation of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder usually occurs in early childhood and is directly related to family education and life experience. Parents are overly harsh and demanding discipline, require their children to strictly abide by the rules, and never allow them to act on their own, causing their children to be overly cautious and cautious. The uncle is punished by his parents for doing wrong. Slow formation of frequent nervous and anxious emotional reactions. The lifestyle habits of some family members may also have an impact on children. For example, doctors families, due to their excessive love for cleaning, pay special attention to the child s hygiene, which can easily cause children to cleanliness and produce compulsive hand washing. In addition, strong setbacks and stimuli in early childhood may also produce compulsive personality. Studies have also shown that obsessive-compulsive personality is also related to heredity. Family members who have obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have a higher probability of having a obsessive-compulsive personality disorder than their normal families.

In general, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is strongly stimulated or sustained mental stress, which easily leads to obsessive-compulsive neurosis.

Compulsive personality therapy

For the treatment of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, self-psychotherapy should be mainly used. Here are two specific methods:

Obsessive personality listens to its natural law

Because the main characteristics of obsessive personality are to rationalize conflicts, to suppress and control oneself excessively, the correction of obsessive personality disorder is mainly to reduce and relax mental stress. The most effective way is to listen to what is natural and do whatever you want. Don't think about it after you have done it, and don't evaluate what you have done. For example, worrying that the door is not closed properly, let it not be closed; the desk is not cleaned, so it is not clean; if the words are written awkwardly, let it go and have nothing to do with yourself. At first, this may bring an emotional response to anxiety, but since the patient's compulsive behavior is far from being beyond the control of obsessive-compulsive disorder, after a period of training and efforts of his own will, the symptoms will be eliminated.

Obsessive-compulsive personality

Patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have left the autonomy of action to "rules and habits" and locked their lively minds in a cage. So break the chains, open the cages, and let the free thoughts that had been imprisoned dominate your actions. Drinking it right away is a great way to open the cage. The so-called "hold drink" is borrowed from the Zen "Taksan stick, Linji drink". Tokuyama often scared the students with a big stick and made enlightened students suddenly enlightened, while Linji asked the students with ambiguous questions. When students hesitated to answer, Linji screamed as a warning. Why are those disciples obsessed with obsession? The reason is that they rely too much on the rigid dogma in their heads. When a person is too obsessed with classics and rules, he often feels confused about the changing reality of life. People with a compulsive personality have become accustomed to doing things according to the dogma, always do according to the "how should, how must" guidelines, to some extent like a robot. To change this situation, we should strive to find unique events in life, and let these unique events bring new ideas and new ideas and methods to solve problems, in order to play the role of "holding the lead" and change the past adherence to conventions, Habits.

In addition, you can also create some "drinks". When you feel that you will not be able to control certain behaviors, it is effective to yell "stop" or "no" to yourself. At this time, your thinking and behavior habits are affected. Disruption, self-awareness comes into play. If you are not comfortable with other people's affairs and hesitate to give things up to your subordinates, you can yell "Don't break." Discard all considerations at that instant and quickly assign the task to the subordinates. Sometimes you find yourself inadequate to stop, you can ask yourself. Good friends, colleagues and even supervisors "drink" when necessary-down. For example, when-the work is about to end, because of their pursuit of perfection, they can't be completed late, at this time helpers might as well scream "Stop when you break!"-It will be effective.