mental health | lived experiences

Living With Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)

And its difference from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

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Table of Contents:
− Introduction
− What is a Personality Disorder?
− What does OCPD look like?
− How is it different from OCD?
− What is a comorbidity?
− My personal experience

Introduction

My recent article on the developments in the classification of mental health diagnoses aimed to be the prologue into talking about my experience with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD).

A main problem with such “labels” is that sometimes they’re not accurate. Other times, they can be a huge relief. But, the misconceptions about the diagnoses can make everyday life difficult.

I have talked in the past (mainly through poems and short life stories) about my other mental health struggles, for example with eating disorders, misophonia, developmental trauma, anxiety, OCD, etc.

I hope that talking about OCPD will help those who might have it, or help others who might know someone with…