Anancaste personality disorder is a violation of the human psyche. Subject to this ailment is characterized by a desire for perfectionism, he is obsessed with doubts and drowns in the details, he needs ideal results of work, in this regard, he is stubborn and irritable. Periodic obsessive thoughts (obsessions) and actions (compulsions) cause deep negative feelings in such people that are difficult for a person to cope with.
This disorder is most often found among men, it is genetic in nature, and among one of the reasons for its occurrence is an overly harsh upbringing. Parents, be softer with the children, so you don’t reproach yourself for the shaky psyche of your own person.
Symptoms
An ancestral personality is not difficult to recognize. Do not be indifferent. If you see that a close person is tormented by incessant unnecessary doubts, he constantly checks everything, takes excessive care, and in the process of activity he is preoccupied with details to the detriment of the process itself, then it’s time to sound the alarm. A clear installation also hinders such a person: either to do something perfectly, or to do nothing at all. It stops his life. A person becomes super-obligatory, obsessed with his activities to the detriment of the rest of his life.
As a result, the super-pedant man is afraid to violate social norms and orders and suffers from the fact that he cannot adapt in changing circumstances.
pros
Among the positive qualities is a high ability for lengthy routine work, provided that this work does not require any additional thought, deviations from the intended algorithm, and the elements of creativity are not needed in the process. In addition, before making any decision, these people carefully weigh everything and think it over. Perhaps this is all. The rest in this ailment destroys the personality and prevents it from living and developing.
Minuses
Anancast is characterized by the inability to adapt to environmental conditions - rigidity, as well as obstinacy, excessive love of order, laws and regulations. This man is obsessed with neatness, goes into the smallest details and sometimes completely insignificant little things, he can be called a perfectionist. And all this prevents him from completing normally any of the tasks for which he undertakes. And they are very afraid to make a mistake, because of this they are indecisive. A person is constantly overcome by “mental chewing gum”: a lot of thought, but there is no solution to the problem.
Such people are characterized by a high degree of formality, lack of a sense of humor, excessive seriousness, intolerance.
They are not capable of compromises, but the most important thing is that they require others to completely obey the rules of the life that they invented for themselves.
For them, everything that can break the usual stereotypes is alarming and unacceptable, and this anxiety is masked by various rituals. Often the Anancasts have completely unacceptable attractions.
As a consequence of the disease, people develop anxiety-phobic disorders and obsessive-compulsive neuroses. Needless to say, you need to see a psychiatrist for treatment?
At work
Watch your boss. If he cannot and does not want to disrupt the algorithm by which his work proceeds, he delegates with difficulty, demands that he strictly perform everything only as he says, there is a possible anancast before you. There are many in leadership positions.
Moreover, he is absolutely sure that he is doing everything correctly, the only way he needs it, there are no more options. He has rulers and pens on the table, strictly in a certain place, there is a monitor without a single speck of dust, and at a certain angle lies the keyboard. Anancast chief will require, for example, that the numbers in the report should not be on the left and not in the middle in the column, but strictly on the right. Misunderstanding on the part of colleagues of such subtleties makes the patient with anancastic disorder angry and refuse to work with such "stupid" employees.
Types
How can people with anancastic personality disorder be classified? Types of deviations are found at different levels. On psychotic and neurotic, at the same time, personality characteristics characteristic of this type are retained by all. Some groups of doctors share anancastic personality disorder into compulsive and obsessive types, while others do not.
The obsessive-compulsive nature is basically based on such protective mechanisms as “isolation of affect”, in which the emotional component of the experience is leveled out to “reactive formation”, when the negative feeling is transformed into a positive one and vice versa. Also, the person is convinced that she can completely control all processes - these people are embraced by the mania of total control.
Jealousy and ... greed?
Anancasts usually hold leadership positions. They are jealous - they feel that they were betrayed when part of their work is entrusted to a more mobile and flexible person. And if not, how does it end? A patient with anancastic disorder puts all the work on himself, and this leads to emotional and moral exhaustion, as this is an overwhelming burden. Greed? Rather, the desire to do everything with dignity, in the best possible way. The best. The trouble of the perfectionist. Try to praise such a person - he will be ten years younger, he will be so pleased!
But if the anancast stalls, it is buried in small things, breaks the deadlines, and it is fired. As a result, he suffers even more from what he could not do as he should, eats himself up, plunging deeper into the disease, leaving society in the jungle of his personality: a vicious circle results.
Family problems
Anancasts give the impression of callous and emotionally cold people, as they always try to control the manifestation of their feelings, which is a problem point. Households are injured by their constant nit-picking, perceived as tyranny. Emotional coldness leads to estrangement from society.
Clear signs of the disease
In his youth, the future Anancast is shy and always overly controls himself. To accurately make such a diagnosis, you need to identify four or more of the following signs that appear when a person is ripe.
- Excessive attention to details and rules, strict adherence to the plan, often to the detriment of the result and meaning.
- Perfectionism, leading to problems in relationships.
- Excessive immersion in work at the expense of leisure, even when there is no apparent lack of finance.
- Excessive craving for the accumulation of money, censure of excess spending. Any penny seems wasted.
- Such people do not know how to cooperate with others.
- Rigidity in all areas.
- Discomfort when changing the usual familiar environment, any repair and rearrangement for the Anancast is painful, it is difficult to part with old things.
- Emotions under strict control are often not manifested.
- It’s hard to get in touch with new people.
Causes
Anancaste personality disorder can be transmitted at the gene level. The predisposition to it is, according to scientists, about 7%. If a child has had a birth and craniocerebral injury, these are also risk factors.
Take a look around and analyze your childhood. Parents forbade you to show their emotions and weaknesses, taught to be restrained? Emotions are not subject to mind control. The person who suppresses them further experiences guilt for the manifestation of their feelings and desires, and any containment threatens the possible development of mental illness.
When parents demand that their children comply with high behavioral standards and “standards of feeling”, the child becomes guilty because they impose the need to control his emotions, but in reality the course of emotional processes is due to internal causes. Symptoms of anancastic personality disorder are remorse due to out of control emotions and feelings. In childhood, we do not know how to control our emotions, we are punished for this, and over time we learn and get used to hide our sincere desires deep inside ourselves. Suppressed emotions lead to a mental disorder.
Another mistake of parents is the expectation of exceptional success in behavior and learning from children. Did not live up to expectations? This is followed by punishment. And as a result - constant self-doubt, with a tendency to growth.
The danger of anancastic personality disorder also lies in the fact that it can become one of the signs of schizophrenia and autism, manic-depressive psychosis, organic brain damage, and develop against the background of the appearance of tumors.
From the point of view of psychoanalysis, anancasts thus exhibit suppressed aggression or anxiety.
Personality type
Many psychologists distinguish a special, anancastic personality type, not considering this disorder a violation, but simply considering it a person’s characteristics. But there are psychological schools that consider such behavior and reactions to be abnormal. In any case, if you or your loved ones have found similar symptoms, consult a psychiatrist or first a psychologist.
Both points of view are united in one thing: if a low level of manifestation simply causes an increased nervousness of a person and can manifest itself in the form of accentuation (at the neurotic level), then a more aggravated severity leads to deep problems of socialization and is called anancaste psychopathy. Consultation of specialists will not be redundant in any of the cases, discomfort must be resolved.
Test diagnostic methods
As an additional measure for identifying the condition, the Leonhard-Schmishek test is performed. If you get high scores, then the disorder is obvious. Only a psychiatrist can carry out a full diagnosis.
Disease treatment
Anancaste personality disorder must be subject to comprehensive treatment. In the process of therapy, it is worth paying increased attention to the patient's desire to actively control emotional manifestations. Therapies:
- Plunge into creativity, allowing the patient to express his experiences, for example, in shape and color.
- Group classes give excellent results, but at the stage of psychopathy they are not always possible.
- To eliminate vegetative manifestations (increased sweating and blood pressure, heart rate), additional consultations with cardiologists, neuropathologists, the appointment of psychotropic drugs and other drugs are necessary. Competent and timely treatment of anancastic personality disorder will help restore a healthy, healthy person to society.