What is it about?
Perfectionist cleaning one's home, just to get it tidy, may just as much assume obsessive-compulsive proportions as handwashing and domestic cleaning motivated by contamination fears. If so, it is often accompanied by a perfectionism and rigidity in other domestic jobs as well. This subtype of OCD is hardly acknowledged. This article provides evidence for its existence and substantial incidence. It is written to invite other OCD-investigators to replicate these findings.
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Why is it important?
It is a personal and public health problem, meriting acknowledgement and therapeutic intervention, both for the patients and for their housemates.
Perspectives
It is an instance of those obsessive-compulsive disorders, characterized by incompleteness feelings, a need for order and perfection in plain things. And it is quite different from contamination-fear related cleaning, although part of the patients may suffer from both OCDs.
Drs. Peter Prudon
Independent
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This page is a summary of: Compulsive Tidying as an OCD Dimension: Clinical and Empirical Evidence, January 2023, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202301.0412.v1.
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