Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

A person diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder has a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.

People with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder will have a majority of the following symptoms:

• occupied with rules, details, lists, order, organization and schedules to the extent that the main point of the whole thing is lost
• are perfectionists, cannot complete a task if their standards are not met
• over-working to the extent that they have no time for friendships and leisure
  
• inflexible and stubborn
  
• unable to discard objects with no sentimental value
• refuse to work with others unless they completely follow their ideas
• stingy, for they believe that money should be saved for future misfortunes

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