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I recently finished therapeutic work with a man whom I’ll call Fred. His story addresses...
The Origins of OCPD: Genes, Environment, and the Two Other Factors Most People Don’t Consider
Many people wonder how they became controlling, driven, and perfectionistic. Or, to use the clinical...
People pleasing and obsessive-compulsive personality occur together far more than many might think. Some people put all their determination and perfectionism into making other people happy with the assumption that it will come back to them in love, support or affirmation. It often does not happen that way.
I came across something the other day that perfectly expresses my own thoughts about the...
Burnout: What Happens When You Ignore Messages From Your Unconscious
People with obsessive-compulsive personality and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) are driven to be as productive...
8 Lessons for Compulsives & Perfectionists from NBC’s The Good Place
The television series The Good Place has lots of wisdom to offer compulsives and perfectionists....
Norman was taking his family out to dinner for a special occasion and he had...
Occasionally I come across a study that sheds so much light on the struggles that...
A longstanding source of sanity and serenity for me has been Jane English’s beautiful edition...
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