The An ancestral personality Is characteristic of those people who live obsessed by perfection. Whether for cleanliness, order, agenda or schedules. The difference with a perfectionist person is that those who suffer from this disorder generalize it to all walks of life.
Do you feel bad if you do not control every aspect of your life? Do you dedicate much time to every detail however irrelevant it may be? If you identify with these issues, you may have this syndrome.
Be cautious! First discover with us which 13 characteristics or general characteristics of this type of personality are most common, and if you definitely see yourself reflected, read on to discover the possible consequences that can result (psychosis, depression) and especially treatments to combat The"perfectionist syndrome".
Characteristics of an ancestral personality
A person has an ancestral personality when he cares too much about the details, schedules, as well as about fulfilling all the rules, among other hobbies.
In addition, it is defined by being always Indecisive And having doubts about everything she does, this leads her to be always worried about what is happening around her; Unleashing a deep Personal insecurity .
They also often insist that others follow the same routine that they follow, often being a problem for other people if they take the opposite or do not submit to their requests.
This disorder is included within the Obsessive-compulsive spectrum And as you can imagine there are several degrees of obsession as well as behavior.
What are the characteristics of an ancestral personality?
Here we explain the most important traits or characteristics of the ananchromatic personality. These are not usually present in all people in the same way, nor do all these characteristics have to be present in them.
1- Perfectionists
A more significant feature, so it is not surprising that perfection In everything they do in their daily lives, such as at work or even with themselves.
In addition, not only are they usually demanding themselves, but also with the people around them, if they do not live up to their demands they become very frustrated.
This type of personality can cause damage to the health of the people who suffer it, deriving for example in contractures, stress Y anxiety , among other.
2- Responsible
Due to their high level of exigency, they are very responsible with the tasks that they perform and that they want to realize. They are usually the typical people who stay in the companies until very late, finishing the projects because they do not like how they have been left or even because they continue to reflect on an idea and how to improve it.
They do not conceive the idea of being irresponsible, since their Level of commitment to the tasks And orders they have is very high. So much so that they are even able to continue working even if they are not in optimal health.
3- Something controllers
They can become very controlling with the people they have around, as they also want others to give their best and be just as"perfect"as they are.
This can lead them to be quite harsh with people with whom they have a high level of confidence, even going so far as to hurt without realizing it due to their high levels of exigency.
A clear example would be that if this person wants you to do some activity instead of another, will do everything possible to do it and not conforming to that will require you to be the best. If you are not, you will be disappointed.
4- Fair people
They are often people who have a high degree of justice by having clear the distinction between what is right and what is wrong according to what she understands. Therefore, despite its level of demand, it knows how to reward the efforts of others to be up to it. This makes them very proud of them.
Despite its high level of perfectionism, it tries to achieve its objectives without performing malicious activities that can cause harm to another person. On the contrary, they want to reach where it is proposed by their own merits.
5- Usually have brief relationships
As you may be imagining, maintaining a relationship with a person with this type of personality is very complicated because it is never enough. That is, they demand so much from their partner that they never come to live up to their desires.
Therefore, let's say that their relationships They will last as long as their partners endure Because, as we will see later, people with an ancestral personality do not conceive very well the failure or error in their personal or professional life.
6- Feelings of misunderstanding
They often feel very misunderstood not only by the people closest to her, but by the world at large. No one understands why they are so picky about themselves or why they get so frustrated when something does not come out as they want or are wrong.
This sometimes leads them to feel very alone and not to find the support they need, since even they themselves do not know why they are so.
7- Do not settle for anything
Whatever you do, you will never be happy with your work or the work of others. Once again, their high level of demand leads them to want to touch a nonexistent perfection that even they (as much as they want) can not reach because it surpasses its limits.
For people with this type of personality, the activities they perform can always be improved and never completely completed.
8- They are very negative
They have a High degree of negativity In their life, since they do not believe themselves good enough for something positive to happen to them. Even on some occasions they often think that they do not deserve them even if they work very hard to get them. Always his extreme negativity will be present.
Negativity accompanies you in all aspects of your life, both professional and personal. They will always look for an explanation or some reason to say why that good something should have happened to someone else and not to the same.
9- No middle terms in their actions
Something that It often annoys people That have around them is that in their thinking and their actions there are no middle terms. Or something is white or black, or things become perfect or not done.
In these people we can not do something to try or enjoy and clear a little, since they have a High level of competitiveness .
10- Do not stand failure
If something does not come out as they expected or if they fail at what they have been working for, they do not take it as constructive and learnable. With their mistakes they feel the most unhappy people in the world.
As we mentioned earlier, this can cause them serious health problems because who can live with such level of daily requirement?.
11- It matters a lot to him what others think of him
They are often people who value what others think of it because, although it may not seem like it, they have a high degree of insecurity and Low self-esteem Which triggers these behaviors of perfection and competitiveness.
12- Do not give responsibility to others
It is not that they create themselves better than others, but they think that because of their high level of exigency and responsibility they will be able to perform the works or any other function better than other people.
Therefore, it may take Collaborate in group Because they will try to load all the tasks to him instead of sharing them with the others.
13- Do not enjoy life
All this high level of exigency, competitiveness and frustrations caused by the errors, entails that they do not enjoy the life. These people live stressed and thinking at all times about what they have to do and how they should do it, so they do not plan to take time for themselves.
Can it be treated?
If in the traits of your personality some traits of the anan- chastic personality coincide you do not have to worry. You also do not have to do it even if they coincide mostly do not affect your life drastically.
We speak of a disorder when the life of a person is completely affected by it, and in this case this type of personality can lead to a type of disorder.
It is estimated that the perfectionist syndrome reaches a value between 7 and 12% of the population. As we have already mentioned, it is included within obsessive compulsive disorders (Álvarez, 2007).
For the author of the book" The Syndrome of the Perfectionist: The ananthastic "Is understood as"a pattern of personality with marked traits of inflexibility, rigidity, anticipation of duty, a very marked subjectivism in the prosecution of facts, and a self-imposed and to others."
The treatment that is usually given to people who have this type of personality disorder are Antidepressants Y Neuroleptics . However, this is not entirely effective if it is not accompanied by treatments such as psychotherapy .
According to the author of this book, this disorder is more present in women than in men, because they are more related to other problems such as depression .
In summary
Everyone at some point in their life, by the circumstances they are living, can present some of these characteristics or even have them in their own personality without necessarily being anan- chastic.
If they do not drastically affect their daily lives they also do not have to present anan- chastic personality disorder. These kinds of behaviors or characteristics become more acute in times when we feel more stressed than usual, so we do not have to worry if we really do not fulfill all that we have been saying so far.
And you, do you know anyone who has an ancestral personality?
References
- Page 2 Perfectionist Syndrome: The Ananxist. Almuzara.
- Álvarez Romero, M., Fernández Quirós, J. González Fernández, M., Trampotová, O. (2012). Perfectionism treatment: 30 years of experience. XII virtual congress of psychiatry.com. Interpsiquis.
- DSM V.