Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Analysis

Personality disorders consist of maladaptive traits that will essentially over rule ones’ life, to the extent they cannot live a casual or satisfactory life. Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder is one of many personality disorders that outweighs ‘normal’ personality traits and cause detrimental effects on individuals who suffer from the personality disorder, but are still capable of living a ‘successful’ life, which sounds completely paradoxical. OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder) stems during early adolescence and is easily misdiagnosed, which also results in mistreatment. Since OCPD is persistently mistreated/ misdiagnosed, the disorder develops into a forcible and prevalent manner. The main goal of this essay is to expand on OCPD and two scholarly texts that analyze OCPD patients over an elongated period.
Individuals whom suffer personality disorders, typically experience difficulty building relationships among
Warner, Leslie C. Morey, John F. Finch, John G. Gunderson and Andrew E. Skodol) “The Longitudinal Relationship of Personality Traits and Disorders” examined personality traits and their correlation within personality disorders, such as schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Their reasoning for researching the trait and personality disorder correlation, is because personality disorders are seen as ‘stable’ disorders, essentially not changing in any shape or form (Megan B. Warner, Leslie C. Morey, John F. Finch, John G. Gunderson and Andrew E. Skodol 2004). Their suspicion or ‘skepticism’ of personality disorder and traits remaining ‘stable’ throughout its duration, resulted in a study composed of 376 patients selected from a larger sample of 668 recruited for a longitudinal study of personality disorder from four different sites in the Northeast United States (Megan B. Warner, Leslie C. Morey, John F. Finch, John G. Gunderson and Andrew E. Skodol