And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is all about obsessive, compulsive personality.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hello, you beauties. We've got another flipping bank holiday again.

And if you're listening to this at the end of May,

then there'll be another one. This time of year always throws my schedule out the window,

because Mondays are usually my Therapy Natter's podcast editing day and having to make up for lost

time can be a bit of a headspin for anybody. I'm okay with it. I just need to make sure that I schedule everything that needs to be done into my diary.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm doing something at the wrong time to when I usually do.

I'm fairly flexible.

And I want to talk a little bit about flexibility today with, as I was saying, what's called OCPD, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder,

which is different from OCD.

And I'd say OCPD is probably more common a personality disorder than borderline personality

disorder or narcissistic personality disorder.

And yet we hear and talk about those things all the flipping time.

The thing is most people with OCPD don't seek help.

Because they probably don't think that there's anything wrong with the way that they behave.

Whereas having OCD makes it pretty obvious that there's something not

right. Someone with OCD knows that it's over the top to bleach the kitchen every day, but they

can't stop themselves. Whereas OCPD is when the extreme behaviours feel so natural that it's normal and so they aren't

questioned. Well, they might be questioned, but it's usually by other people. Friends, family,

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