Posted by CareBear04 on February 3, 2005, at 19:42:55
In reply to Re: Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, posted by thinkfast on February 3, 2005, at 19:15:37
thinkfast, for awhile all the pdocs and Ts knew i had an anxiety disorder but couldn't pinpoint which one. i have a few OCD compulsive qualities like frequent (but not too frequent) handwashing, ordering things repetetively by color before i could do anything, obsessing over numbers and combinations and superstition... but none of the compulsions were so disruptive as to really meet the compulsive part of OCD. but apparently, there is OCD, purely obsessional without compulsions. this is what this pdoc said i had and one of the reasons he started me on an SSRI. lexapro messed me up so bad, and when i told him the thoughts were racing faster than ever and the ruminations were worse, he suggested that maybe that happens-- worse before better. another pdoc suggested luvox, but i never tried it. i think OCPD is quite different from OCD despite the similarity in names. OCPD is more about perfection, control, criticism of self and others, etc. OCD, especially without compulsions, is more like ruminations, unwanted thoughts racing through your head over and over, feeling guilty or fearing what things could happen, and stuff like that. i haven't thought about these dx's in awhile, but that's what i remember.
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