What is anancastic personality disorder?

We all know someone who is excessively rigorous in everything they undertake, whether at home or at work, but what is often not known is that the pathological preoccupation with perfectionism and order brings with it a I disturb behind. What is the anancastic personality?

Those who suffer from it, did a pathological concern with order and perfectionismand strives daily to achieve perfection in everything he does.

Anything that falls outside these parameters and leads to an error generates a deep feeling of frustration. But they never believe that the problem may lie within them and their behavior or their vision of what is happening.

Instead, they tend to be relentlessly critical of the work of others (and themselves), for this reason wish that everything is perfect.

They carry it into all areas of their life such as personal, family, friends, professional, etc. Have a constant need to check everything to avoid possible failures. They do not accept any mistakes, which leads them to constant emotional discomfort.

What is anancastic personality disorder?

This personality disorder resembles obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)but unlike them, they don’t see a problem in their excessive behavior to make things go the way they want.

Obsessions are ideas, images, and impulses that pass through a person’s mind over and over again. In some cases these thoughts appear from time to time and are slightly annoying. Other times, a person suffering from OCD will have obsessive thoughts all time.

According to the Mayo Clinic, OCD is a disease that causes people to have unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repeat certain behaviors (compulsions) over and over again.

In the case of the anancastic personality, people have harsh behaviors and inflexible with themselves and others, which can cause relationship problems.

The origin of the term comes from Greek mythology, for Ananké, a deity who personifies “inevitability, necessity, compulsion and inevitability”, as Wikipedia explains.

In ancient Greek the word also meant ruin, which is related to fatalistic attitude of anancastics.

The recommended treatment for people with anancastic personality disorder is psychological therapy.

The goal will be to learn to establish and set more realistic goals tolerate frustration, failure and seeing everything more “grey”, without permanent blacks and whites in the extreme evaluations.

Principles of the person with anancastic personality disorder

• They are perfectionists and overly methodical.
• They make excessive demands on themselves and others.
• He demands that everything goes as planned and does not accept any other outcome.
• They have to be in control.
• They are nonconformists.
• They tend to be methodical in their physical appearance, grooming, and daily activities.
• They are overly responsible and very complacent with their tasks.
• Intolerance of failure: They never see it as an opportunity to learn.
• They can’t stand being criticized.
• They polarize their gaze and judge everything in an extreme way: either it is perfect or it is wrong.