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1 Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Student’s First Name, Middle Initial(s), Last Name Institutional Affiliation Course Number and Name Instructor’s Name and Title Assignment Due Date

2 Abstract Obsessive-compulsive personality illness is a medical state that makes someone to feel an irresistible urge for perfectionism, order, and psychological and interpersonal control. Persons with a medical condition have an irrational need to pursue rules and procedures and a moral and principled code from which they hardly diverge. Several research shows that the disorder affects men more than women in any given population. The roots of OCPD involve an amalgamation of environmental features and hereditary factors. OCPD has several symptoms, including alertness to order and faultlessness, dedication to productivity, rigidity, limited feelings and relational functioning, interpersonal control, feeling angry, righteous, and indignant, anxiety which comes with depression. The treatment options for OCPD include psychodynamic therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy; other treatment options include nidotherapy and relaxation. A number of conditions have been viewed to possess a higher danger of comorbidity with obsessive- compulsive personality disorder, and they involve eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, Asperger’s disorder, and depression. Although OCD and OCPD sound alike, they are quite different. Keywords ; amalgamation, interpersonal, psychodynamic, comorbidity, disorder.

3 Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Introduction Obsessive-compulsive personality syndrome is a medical situation that makes an individual feel an irresistible need for perfectionism, order, and psychological and interpersonal authority. Persons with the ailment have a compulsive need to pursue rules and procedures and a moral and principled code from which they hardly diverge (Rowland et al., 2017). That is to state, they think are forever right. Whereas individuals with the condition are alert, their urges are illogical. People who suffers from OCPD have poor interacton skills. Whereas people with this disorder can often enhance their work-life balance if they search for treatment, they hardly feel that there is an issue, so the ailment tends to go unhealed. In a clinical background, OCPD victims can work well and are frequently high achieving, so it could be hard to certify what issues to focus on in treatment (Diedrich & Voderholzer, 2015). Although, family individuals and associates are frequently alert about the hardships of staying with a person with the condition and can grant worthy collateral details to psychological health services. People with OCPD hold high values that start from dysfunctional views recognized in early adolescence. Drifting away from the unbending beliefs can trigger inner mental dissonance, compelling them to push their thoughts onto other individuals, creating hardships in social relationships. The essay describes OCPD, its causes, symptoms, treatment, and comorbidity with other disorders like obsessive- compulsive disorder and eating disorders. In OCPD, insufficiencies are only identified in others, and the exterior environment and victims do not hide ego dystonia or interrogate themselves. On the external, individuals with the condition can seem self-assured, warm, high-achieving, and prepared; their careful values can advantage them in particular professions. OCPD is a different ailment from OCD (obsessive-

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4 compulsive disorder), and the link betwixt the two is quarrelsome; some researchers have identified high comorbidity proportions between the two conditions, yet others have proved less comorbidity (Luo et al., 2020). The main difference is that individuals with OCD frequently feel upset by the nature of their manners or opinions, even if they are powerless to manage them. On the other hand, persons with OCPD normally trust that their deeds have a goal and purpose. Also, OCPD is a character disorder evidenced by perfectionism and a desire for control, whereas OCD is denoted by compulsions and obsessions that take consume a lot of time. For persons with OCD, their deeds are egodystonic, unwelcome, and unintentional, being the result of nervousness-inducing and instinctive thoughts. Conversely, for individuals with OCPD, their conducts are egosyntonic; the fellow feels them as reasonable and desired, being the outcome of, for instance, intense devotion to schedules, a wish for authority, or demand for faultlessness (Hertler, 2013). Another distinction is that persons with OCD are normally self-aware, yet individuals with OCPD usually are not. OCPD is extremely comorbid with additional personality ailments, eating disorders, mood ailments, autism spectrum, substance use ailments, and anxiety. Causes Medical practitioners do not precisely recognize what triggers an individual to have the condition. Although medical practitioners have some theories for the cause of OCPD which involve hereditary and environmental factors (Grant et al., 2019).  Hereditary factors might function as a responsibility in the advancement of OCPD. If an individual has an intimate family individual with the ailment, they might be more probable to have the condition.  A person might have possessed babyhood with very governing or defending victims or caregivers. Various medical experts view OCPD as a surviving mechanism by which

5 individuals founded a directive in their dear lives to tackle their feelings. Childhood shock involving child abuse that forsakes a person feeling like being ‘faultless’ is the only way to endure (Grant et al., 2019)  Individuals whose guardians or caregivers were frequently inaccessible might also possess a progressed danger of OCPD. An individual might have the condition minus any of the mentioned factors as triggers. All in all, the condition is a sophisticated psychological health condition, likely triggered by a complicated mixture of lifestyle, environmental, and mental influences. Symptoms In victims with OCPD, anxiety with control, order, and perfectionism inhibit their flexibility, efficiency, and honesty (Watson, 2018). Inflexible and obstinate in their activities, the sufferers maintain that everything is completed in particular ways. Victims aim at rules, minor details, regulations, schedules, and records to uphold a sense of influence. As an outcome, the major point of development or action is lost. These sufferers repeatedly scrutinize blunders and pay a lot of care to detail. The victims hardly utilize their time, frequently forsaking the most crucial responsibilities. Their obsession with the facts and ensuring everything is flawless can endlessly postpone achievement. They are uninformed of how their conduct impacts their colleagues (Diedrich & Voderholzer, 2015). When concentrating on one responsibility, these sufferers might desert all other features of life. Since these victims wish to complete everything in a particular method, they have trouble delegating roles and functioning with others. Victims with OCPD are exceptionally devoted to work and efficiency; their loyalty is not devoted by economic necessity. As an outcome, leisure actions and relationships are abandoned. They might think they have no duration to ease or go out with colleagues; they might reschedule

6 a retreat that it never occurs, or they might feel they should not work with colleagues so that they never misuse time. OCPD victims schedule ahead in boundless detail and never hope to deliberate changes (Rowland et al., 2017). Their persistent rigidity might aggravate friends and coworkers. Expression of fondness is also firmly controlled. These sufferers might connect to others in an official, stiff, or solemn means. Frequently, they communicate only after they contemplate about the flawless thing to state. They might focus on judgment and the brain and be intolerant of demonstrative or sensitive behavior. These victims might be overenthusiastic, picky, and firm concerning issues of morals, ethics, and principles. They apply unbending moral values to themselves and allies and are bitterly self-critical. Another symptom is that OCPD symptoms are strictly submissive to powers and maintain precise compliance to laws, with no exclusions for mitigating circumstances. Also, victims display limited feelings and interpersonal working. People with OCPD might show little fondness and friendliness; their friendships and speech incline to possess an official and professional style, and not more love is conveyed even to adored ones, like cuddling and greeting a friend or loved one at a bus station (Watson, 2018). They are exceptionally cautious in their social interactions. These individuals possess less impulsiveness while associating with others and certify that their talking follows strict and serious standards by extremely analyzing it. They sieve their dialogue for distressing or flawed pronunciation. Interactions become a time-wasting and wearing effort, and they begin evading it completely. Others view them as aloof and disconnected as a consequence. Their demand for limiting love is a defense technique utilized to manage their feelings. They might remove feelings from their recollections and plan them as an archive of details and facts; the reminisces are streamlined and intellectualized, not feelings they could experience. This aids them in evading unexpected feelings and sentiments and permits them to linger in control.

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7 Treatment It is not simple to treat the condition, even while the individual is prepared to look for help, yet if the individual is wishing to look for and accept assistance, then therapy can be effectual. It has been proposed that occasionally people with OCPD might react better to therapy due to rigid obedience to treatment tasks organized by the therapist. The treatments for OCPD are incredibly identical to those of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with the therapy recognized to be the more successful. Although the condition might be complex, treatments are accessible to manage the signs. The treatment options include psychodynamic therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavior therapy is considered the most effective (Grant et al., 2019). i. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy This treatment is utilized by therapists to tackle several mental wellbeing and substance use problems involving addiction, depression, and anxiety. This sort of treatment is also essential in OCPD therapy. In this therapy, the medical specialist functions as a tutor and teammate to lecture and aid individuals comprehend the link betwixt feelings, thoughts, and conduct (David et al., 2018). During the procedure, the expert will aid an individual to identify primary beliefs and in what manner these impact contentment and associations. An individual with OCPD might trust that perfectionism is an optimistic characteristic and that they should influence their atmosphere and the individuals inside it to attain triumph. A therapist can try to identify faults in this means of thinking and give alternatives. ii. Psychodynamic Therapy This treatment exploits the philosophies of psychoanalysis and transmission focused treatment. In psychodynamic treatment, the purpose is to assist victims in valuing the link

8 betwixt previous experiences and present feelings and activity by comprehending the unconscious thoughts of the victims (Fonagy, 2015). In regards to OCPD, this tactic makes sense. Specialists hypothesize that the demand for perfectionism and influence emanates from a wish for alertness or acceptance from guardians who were inaccessible or overly cruel. Psychodynamic treatment lectures that individuals require vision into their situations for advancement to happen. The issue is that individuals with OCPD typically possess inadequate insight and normally fault others rather than taking accountability for their manners. This barricade could affect therapy. Medications for OCPD Apart from cognitive behavioral therapy, there are other alternative medications for the condition (Grant et al., 2019). Some of the substitute treatments include nidotherapy and relaxation. i. Relaxation A range of relaxation approaches can prove beneficial for controlling stress and worry caused by the condition. Some essential relaxation skills involve deep breathing, yoga, meditation, progressive muscle leisure, and autogenic exercise. The affected individuals have to devote some duration practicing these tactics for a few weeks. With uniformity and endurance, these methods can lower the stress and cause harsh conditions to be more controllable. Relaxing the mind could help victims in recuperating from the situation (Grant et al., 2019). ii. Nidotherapy Nidotherapy is a recent type of therapy that works by varying the atmosphere to favor the sick person instead of functioning to transform the individual to suit their environment. This treatment will hardly attempt to diminish an individual’s perfectionism or wish for authority. It

9 struggles to place the individual in a state where their temperament is possessions, not downsides. Nidotherapy systematically manipulates the social and physical atmosphere to aid attain a better fit for the victim (Grant et al., 2019). Comorbidity Numerous disorders have been witnessed to possess a more serious danger of comorbidity with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and they involve eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, Asperger’s disorder, and depression. i. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD and OCPD are frequently confused. In spite of their identical terms, they are two separate ailments. Some OCPD people have OCD, and the same people can be identified in a similar household, occasionally alongside with eating illnesses. The degree of comorbidity of OCPD in victims with OCD is approximated to about 14-27% (Reddy et al., 2016). ii. Asperger’s Disorder Asperger’s disorder is a neurodevelopmental ailment evidenced by substantial troubles in social communication and nonverbal interatction, together with limited and repetitive recurring patterns of manners and interest (Barahona-Correa et al., 2016).There exist significant resemblances and overlay betwixt. OCPD and Asperger’s disorder, like inflexible devotion to regulations, list-creating, and compulsive features of Asperger’s ailment, however, the last might be differentiated from OCPD particularly pertaining affective manners, poorer social abilities, problems with philosophy of mind, and strong intellectual interests, for instance, a capability to remember every feature of a pastime. iii. Eating Disorders

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10 About 14% of individuals with eating disorders suffer from OCPD. Despite the pervasiveness of the condition among eating disorderly samples, the occurrence of this character disorder or its personality, like perfectionism, is positively connected with various difficulties in eating disorders. Conclusion Obsessive-compulsive personality is a medical illness that makes an individual to feel an appealing need for perfectionism, order, and psychological and interpersonal authority. Persons with the disorder have a strong desire to pursue tasks and processes and an ethical code from which they barely deviate. Although OCPD’s causes are hard to detect, the major ones that include OCPD are hereditary and environmental factors. The symptoms of the disorder include perfectionism to the extent that it damages the capability to complete tasks, stiff, rigid, official mannerisms, an irresistible desire to be always punctual, extreme alertness to detail, unnecessary devotion to occupation at the expense of household and other relationships, and making order and catalogs for responsibilities. OCPD has a treatment that includes psychodynamic and cognitive behavior therapy. Other treatment options involve nidotherapy and relaxation. The condition has comorbidity with other disorders such as eating disorders and obsessive- compulsive disorder.

11 References Barahona-Corrêa, J. B., & Filipe, C. N. (2016). A concise history of Asperger syndrome: the short reign of a troublesome diagnosis. Frontiers in psychology , 6 , 2024. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02024/full David, D., Cristea, I., & Hofmann, S. G. (2018). Why cognitive behavioral therapy is the current gold standard of psychotherapy. Frontiers in psychiatry , 9 , 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00004/full Diedrich, A., & Voderholzer, U. (2015). Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: a current review. Current psychiatry reports , 17 (2), 2. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11920-014-0547-8.pdf Fonagy, P. (2015). The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapies: An update. World Psychiatry , 14 (2), 137-150. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wps.20235 Grant, J. E., Chamberlain, S. R., & Pinto, A. (Eds.). (2019). Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder . American Psychiatric Pub. Hertler, S. C. (2013). Understanding obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: reviewing the specificity and sensitivity of DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. Sage Open , 3 (3), 2158244013500675. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2158244013500675 Luo, Y., Chen, L., Li, H., Dong, Y., Zhou, X., Qiu, L., ... & Wang, K. (2020). Do Individuals With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Share Similar Neural Mechanisms of Decision-Making Under Ambiguous Circumstances?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 14 . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7643011/

12 Reddy, M. S., Vijay M, S., & Reddy, S. (2016). Obsessive-compulsive (Anankastic) personality disorder: A poorly researched landscape with significant clinical relevance. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4103/0253-7176.175085 Rowland, T. A., Jainer, A. K., & Panchal, R. (2017). Living with obsessional personality. BJPsych Bulletin , 41 (6), 366-367. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/living-with-obsessional- personality/ACB108DCA31586AE0F7CE14CE87C67F4 Watson, K. (2018). Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). Available at: https://www.healthline.com/health/obsessive-compulsive-personality-disorder (Accessed: 2021, Nov 30).

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