What's it like when you believe your life is supposed to be amazing? Will you settle for ordinary, ever?

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is characterized by a preoccupation with rules and details, excessive doubt and caution (high degree of conscientiousness), and stubbornness about the way things ought to be, especially the life of an individual with this diagnosis. While all of us infuse much of life with some degree of meaning, almost everything feels incredibly meaningful to the perfectionist. In her mind, it's all connected and part of some grander scheme; it's all going somewhere. And time can't be wasted.

Many with OCPD suffer with depression and anxiety, which is imaginable since so much of life actually feels insignificant. While, on the one hand, many of the decisions made are made so to manage the anxiety and anticipated guilt of wasted time and potential, on the other, embedded is a form of addiction, in this case, to hope.

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