Anancaste personality disorder is a violation of the human psyche. Subject to this disease is characterized by a desire for perfectionism, he is obsessed with doubts and drowns in details, he needs ideal results of work, in connection with this he is stubborn and irritable. Periodic obsessive thoughts (obsessions) and actions (compulsions) cause in such people deep negative experiences that are difficult for a person to cope with.
This disorder is most common among men, it is genetic in nature, and one of the reasons for its occurrence is excessively harsh upbringing. Parents, be gentler with your children, so that later you don’t reproach yourself for the shattered psyche of your loved one.
Symptoms
An anancaste personality is easy to recognize. Don't be indifferent. If you see that a loved one is being tormentedincessant unnecessary doubts, he constantly double-checks everything, shows excessive caution, in the process of activity he is overly concerned with details to the detriment of the process itself, then it's time to sound the alarm. Such a person is also hindered by a clear setting: either to do something perfectly, or not to do anything 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, an over-pedant person is afraid of breaking social norms and orders and suffers from the fact that he cannot adapt to changing circumstances.
Pros
Among the positive qualities is a high ability for long-term routine work, provided that this work does not require any additional thinking, deviations from the intended algorithm, and elements of creativity are not needed in the process. In addition, before making any decision, these people will carefully weigh and consider everything. Perhaps that's all. The rest of this illness destroys the personality and prevents it from living and developing.
Cons
Anancaste is characterized by an inability to adapt to environmental conditions - rigidity, as well as stubbornness, excessive love for order, laws and rules. This person 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 normally completing any of the tasks he undertakes. And they are very afraid of making a mistake, because of this they are indecisive. A person is constantly overcome by "mental chewing gum": a lot of thinking, but 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 incapable of compromise, but most importantly, they demand from others complete obedience to the rules of the life that they have come up with.
For them, everything that can break habitual stereotypes is disturbing and unacceptable, and this anxiety is masked by various rituals. Anancasters often develop completely unacceptable urges.
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 violate the algorithm according to which his work proceeds, delegates powers with difficulty, demands to strictly carry out everything only as he says, you have a possible anancast. There are many of them in leadership positions.
At the same time, he is absolutely sure that he is doing everything right, the only way it should be, there are no more options. He has pens and pencils lined up on the table, a monitor without a single speck of dust is strictly in a certain place, and a keyboard lies at a certain angle. The chief anancast will require, for example, that the numbers in the report should not be on the left and not in the middle in a column, but strictly on the right. Misunderstanding on the part of colleagues of such subtleties makes the patient anancasteupset to get angry and refuse to work with such "stupid" employees.
Types
How do you classify people with an anancaste personality disorder? Types of deviations occur at different levels. On the psychotic and neurotic, at the same time, the personal characteristics characteristic of this type are preserved in everyone. Some groups of doctors divide an anancaste personality disorder into compulsive and obsessive types, others do not.
Obsessive-compulsive nature is based on such protective mechanisms as "isolation of affect", in which the emotional component of the experience is leveled to "reactive formation", when a 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 seized by the mania of total control.
Jealousy and… greed?
Anancastes usually occupy leadership positions. They are jealous - they feel 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 an anancaste disorder takes all the work on himself, and this leads to emotional and moral exhaustion, since this is an unbearable burden. Greed? Rather, the desire to do everything with dignity, in the best possible way. The best. The trouble of a perfectionist. Try to praise such a person - he will be ten years younger, he will be sonice!
But if an anancast slips, he digs into the little things, breaks the deadlines, and he is fired. As a result, he suffers even more from the fact that he could not do the right thing, eats himself, sinking deeper into the disease, leaving society for the jungle of his personality: a vicious circle is obtained.
Family problems
Anancasters come across as callous and emotionally cold people, as they always try to control the manifestation of their feelings, which is a problematic moment. Households are hurt by their constant nagging, perceived as tyranny. Emotional coldness leads to alienation from society.
Clear signs of disease
In his youth, the future anancast is shy and always overly in control of himself. To accurately make such a diagnosis, you need to identify four or more of the following signs that appear when a person matures.
- Excessive attention to detail and rules, strict adherence to the plan, often to the detriment of the result and meaning.
- Perfectionism leading to relationship problems.
- Excessive immersion in work at the expense of leisure, even when there is no obvious lack of funds.
- Excessive desire to accumulate money, censure of unnecessary spending. Every penny seems wasted.
- Such people do not know how to cooperate with others.
- Inflexibility in all areas.
- Discomfort when changing the familiar environment, any repair and rearrangement for an anancast is painful, he hardly parted with old things.
- Emotions under strict control, often notappear.
- It's hard to connect with new people.
Reasons
Anancaste personality disorder can be passed on at the gene level. The predisposition to it is, according to scientists, about 7%. If a child has had birth and traumatic brain injury, these are also risk factors.
Look back and analyze your childhood. Did your parents forbid you to show your emotions and weaknesses, did they teach you to be restrained? Emotions are beyond the control of the mind. The person who suppresses them later experiences guilt for the manifestation of their feelings and desires, and any restraint threatens with the possible development of mental illness.
When parents demand high behavioral and "feeling standards" from their children, the child is guilt-ridden because he is forced to control his emotions, when in reality the course of emotional processes is conditioned by internal causes. Symptoms of an anancaste personality disorder are remorse due to out-of-control emotions and feelings. As children, we do not know how to control our emotions, we are punished for this, and over time we learn and get used to hiding our sincere desires deep inside ourselves. Suppressed emotions lead to mental disorder.
Another mistake parents make is expecting their children to excel in behavior and learning. Didn't live up to expectations? This is followed by punishment. And as a result - constant self-doubt, with a tendency to grow.
Dangeranancaste personality disorder also consists 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 show repressed aggression or anxiety.
Personality type
Many psychologists distinguish a special, anancaste type of personality, not considering this disorder as a violation, but simply considering it to be a person's characteristics. But there are schools of psychology that consider such behavior and reactions to be abnormal. In any case, if you find similar symptoms in yourself or your loved ones, contact a psychiatrist or a psychologist first.
Both points of view are unanimous 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 a neurotic level), then a more aggravated severity leads to deep problems of socialization and is called anancaste psychopathy. Consultations of specialists will not be superfluous in any of the cases, discomfort must be resolved.
Test diagnostic methods
As an additional measure to identify the condition, the Leonhard-Shmishek test is performed. If high scores are obtained, then the disorder is obvious. Only a psychiatrist can conduct a full diagnosis.
Cure disease
Anancaste personality disordermust necessarily be subject to complex treatment. In the process of therapy, it is worth paying increased attention to the patient's desire to actively control emotional manifestations. Therapy options:
- Plunge into creativity, allowing the patient to express his experiences, for example, in form and color.
- Group classes give excellent results, but at the stage of psychopathy they are not always possible.
- To eliminate vegetative manifestations (excessive sweating and blood pressure, heart palpitations), additional consultations of cardiologists, neuropathologists, prescription of psychotropic drugs and other means are necessary. Proper and timely treatment of an anancaste personality disorder will help return a full-fledged he althy person to society.
