OCPD or OCD?

I posted in the OCPD forum, but I think I'll get more responses here because OCD is more common than its sister personality disorder.

My therapist gave me a rather impulsive diagnosis of OCPD but I think otherwise. I don't seem that very severe. And it does focus more on handling anxiety. My problems revolve mostly around rituals and list-making. I make physical lists and mental lists that I envision in my head. My rituals are usually the orders that I do the things in my list. I walk around and physically shake because of the physical anxiety I put myself through. I constantly make these mental lists. One time, in school, I did this "order" of doing three math problems, take a sip of my coffee, and then check the clock. I make what seems like millions of these little orders, rituals and lists. I even started making an order on how I'm gonna navigate this forum.

It's not as severe as OCPD is it? Let me know what you guys think.

I'm also obsessively making threads in other sub-forums. I'm so sorry to the moderators! Please don't ban me.

Hi,

I would have said that you have OCPD too. It certainly doesn't seem like OCD as there is no obsession followed by a compulsion (or compulsions). lol - we're actually in a similar-ish boat because my official diagnosis is OCD, but I strongly suspect OCPD. I make a list each day of things to do, and virtually everything that I do is planned. I don't know how to live an unplanned life, and to be honest it has been an issue in previous relationships.

I do, however, believe that we can use our habits to our advantage. I try to mostly center my OCPD around my research, which means that I have excelled, academically-speaking. At home, I try to minimise the severity of it, but my OCPD is enough to mean that my house is always clean and pleasant, and that bills are paid on time.

You seem to not like the thought of having OCPD - why is that do you think?

Kevin