Ocd Vs Ocd

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There are many different disorders and the two I am going to be talking about are Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Obsessive Compulsive personality Disorder (OCPD) . These two are so alike but at the same time different in certain ways. OCD is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something. OCPD is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency. I think they are completely different because of the fact OCD is something that one cannot help themselves, OCPD is more of an attitude…show more content…
Obsessions and compulsions do not exist in OCPD, sometimes in OCD they do things over and over to where as in OCPD they take forever to even do that certain thing. People with OCD want to get rid of their symptoms and move on and get better, people with OCPD may have the exact same problems but instead of blaming it on themselves they will blame it on the people around them. People with OCPD often have very rigid views on being right and wrong, they think they are always right and are willing to argue until they are. Neither of these is a defining characteristic of…show more content…
With OCD it is more of a disorder that someone can not help, like I had a friend in high school who had OCD with touching her nose, every time someone would touch their nose and she would see it, she would touch her nose. She could not help it, it was just something that she would just do. Another case my roommate this year also has OCD, he has OCD for cleanliness and organization. If something in our room is not clean enough when we leave he has to clean it before we can leave, sometimes he will waste an hour just cleaning before we leave. On the other hand I have a friend who has OCPD, a lot of the time when we will hangout something will go wrong and he will blame it on other people. He never admits to being wrong an any sort of way. Sometimes he will take a while to make a decision and then at times we wont even do anything because he has taken so long to make a decision. In all, I think the two disorders are similar they have so many differences, they are both disorders but OCPD does not deal with obsessions and compulsions. OCD is more of an disorder that happens to someone who cant help themselves, OCPD you can help it, its more of an attitude

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