Dear Murtaza:

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)- of course, yes, I am familiar with the term, not to be confused with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but I don’t see you there, since one of the symptoms is “a rigid adherence to rules and regulations”, unless one is to think of your own “rules and regulations” which are condensed in one loud NO to “normies”‘ social rules regulations.

I am personally not impressed by the normalcy achieved by normies (your term)- the world is in a very sad state because of “normal” rules and regulations, which are pretty much about preserving, or conserving, the wrongs of the past, leading to more individual and global dysfunction, waste and violence.

I was thinking, before your most recent post, that the problem to first address, before anything else, is how you feel, the anxiety and depression- which is a product of physio-chemical processes in the brain and body (neurotransmitters and hormones). Other than chemical intervention, like the Zoloft that you are taking, there are Mindfulness exercises that affect these powerful brain/ body chemical processes, and which can help you. But it is a long process that requires excruciating patience. I struggle with it myself.

anita

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