A meticulous person is one who likes order in a general sense, at work and in his personal life. To achieve order, he acts scrupulously, without improvising, taking care of all the details and usually extreme cleanliness and neatness.
The meticulous individual does things patiently and unhurriedly, taking the time to get things right. Therefore, the meticulous is someone meticulous, conscientious and scrupulous. If his attitude is exaggerated, he can be considered as picky or picky.
Activities and professions in which it is necessary to be meticulous
Certain activities and professions require rigorous procedures accompanied by a patient disposition. If we think of a craftsman, a surgeon or an aviation pilot, none of them can act impulsively, disorganized and outside of a methodology. On the contrary, they have to be extremely cautious and precise, that is, meticulous.
Meticulous attitude taken to the extreme can be a symptom of OCD
The meticulous person likes to do things well, and their scrupulous attitude generally pays off. However, when this attitude is permanent, affects all aspects of life and manifests itself obsessively, it may be a symptom related to a psychological disorder, specifically obsessive compulsive disorder, also known by its acronym OCD.
As a general rule, someone who suffers from OCD is someone who is a perfectionist and spends a lot of time on seemingly irrelevant details.
In other words, if you don't act meticulously, you feel uncomfortable and nervous. These people need to know that everything is in place and under their control. Disorder and anarchy provoke an alteration in them and they have the irrepressible impulse to supervise everything.
Psychologists consider that overly meticulous attitudes express obvious personal insecurity. On the other hand, these individuals have problems when making decisions, because they know that they can be wrong and this overwhelms them.
OCD specialists understand that this exaggerated behavior may be related to the education received and the family environment. Sometimes, OCD can hide other types of problems and, consequently, to address them some type of psychological therapy is necessary.
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