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I have been thinking, and I don't think I can attribute some of my issues to OCD. I'm not sure how to explain this, but I think I'm not necessarily dealing with an "illness." I think this is maybe just who I am. My personality. Perhaps I have obsessive compulsive personality disorder or a neurotic personality. Without all of the worrying and obsessional thinking, I don't know if there is much more to me. If I am just completely neurotic in most all areas, I don't know how to escape or change any of this. What if this is just who I am?

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There is always the possibility you may suffer from another disorder but whether you have just OCD or OCD and another disorder, you would still be suffering from one or more disorders. You can think "this is just the way I am" but what good does that do? It's not a life sentence. People can become better when they have OCD.

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Thank you, and I agree that that is an awfully deterministic mindset and isn't really doing any good.

I have a question (for anyone):

Is it still ruminating if you are trying to figure something out or solve something? I find that I'm spending a lot of my time trying to figure out if something actually is a legitimate worry and if so, whether I should do something about it. I don't know if this is just normal worrying or ruminating. Although it's not pleasant, I don't want to stop because I want to figure it out in case it's something that actually needs addressing.

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I often wonder what is the illness and what is your true personality I'm told I was happy as a child up until about 16 then my personality changed I no longer laugh or smile even my brother nicknamed me morrisey

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I often wonder what is the illness and what is your true personality I'm told I was happy as a child up until about 16 then my personality changed I no longer laugh or smile even my brother nicknamed me morrisey

That's the thing. If neuroticism (essentially anxiety, fear, worry) is included in the five-factor model of personality and is indeed considered a major dimension of one's personality, how do you draw the line between illness (OCD) and personality (neuroticism)?

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That's the thing. If neuroticism (essentially anxiety, fear, worry) is included in the five-factor model of personality and is indeed considered a major dimension of one's personality, how do you draw the line between illness (OCD) and personality (neuroticism)?

But what if the anxiety, fear and worry is artificial? What if you work at it and manage those things down to normal levels? Then does not the true personality emerge?

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