korecrimson ha risposto al tuo post “how do u have OCPD & OCD?”
Totally hijacking your ask for a second, but do you also ever find it hard sometimes to figure out where the line between OCD symptoms and OCPD symptoms is? I only have OCD, but sometimes there's like a weird gray area between where I see an OCPD thing and it's like, wait, I do that! Only for a totally different reason...
Holy milky cow, dude. I am nowere near knowing where if fully ends one and starts the other, but i figured out some tricks.
OCPD usually doesn’t come in vivid “out-of-reasonable-logic” intrusive thoughs such as “i wil sterminate my family by causing a flood with this 1liter water bottle”, but more like in a way when i have to have the moral compass set as higher as humanly possible and sentiments like that.
OCPD usually doesn’t prompt me to have compulsions such as, following the below example, “thus i will check repeatedly if this bottle is in the right place until i am “sure””, but it will obligate me to follow an attitude, a behaviour, even extremistic, even as i said, out of human possibility.
Sometimes i ask myself: is this about my personality and who i “am”, or about my thoughts and how i act upon them?
If it answer to the first then it’s probably OCPD, if it answers to the latter then it’s probably OCD.
But to answer you question YES TOTALLY, grey areas are my picnic areas. Plus it doesnt change the fact that, even if you know the difference, you still have to deal with both, ummff..