Gary Trosclair explores the power of the driven personality and the positive outcomes those with obsessive compulsive personality disorder can achieve through a mindful program of harnessing the skills that can work, and altering those that serve no one.
If you were born with a compulsive personality you may become rigid, controlling, and self-righteous.
But you also may become productive, energetic, and conscientious.
Same disposition, but very different ways of expressing it.
What determines the difference? Some of the most successful and happy people in the world are compelled by powerful inner urges that are almost impossible to resist.
They're compulsive.
They're driven.
But some people with a driven personality feel compelled by shame or insecurity to use their compulsive energy to prove their worth, and they lose control of the wheel of their own life.
They become inflexible and critical perfectionists who need to wield control, and they lose the point of everything they do in the process.
A healthy compulsive is one whose energy and talents for achievement are used consciously in the service of passion, love and purpose.
An unhealthy compulsive is one whose energy and talents for achievement have been hijacked by fear and its henchman, anger.
Both are driven: one by meaning, the other by dread.
The Healthy Compulsive: Healing Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and Taking the Wheel of the Driven Personality, will serve as the ultimate user's guide for those with a driven personality, including those who have slid into obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD).
Unlike OCD, which results in specific symptoms such as repetitive hand-washing and intrusive thoughts, OCPD permeates the entire personality and dramatically affects relationships.
It also requires a different approach to healing.
Both scientifically informed and practical, The Healthy Compulsive describes how compulsives get off track and outlines a four-step program to help them consciou.
| Driven | One by meaning the other by dread |
|---|---|
| Compulsive | Healing |
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