Analytical & Compulsive Behavior

Compulsive behaviors can negatively affect a person's quality of life. Overly analytical individuals may suffer from similar symptoms and exhibit like motives for their behavior patterns. Each might display an intense need to establish personal safety and control over their environments.

Identification of Compulsive Behavior

• Compulsive disorders can be characterized by a number of behaviors. Often they can be seen in the repetition of unwanted thought patterns or drives that can highly disrupt someone's life. They might also be illustrated by excessively practiced behaviors such as cleaning, counting or ordering of objects.This can also be known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD.

Analytical Behavior

• Analytical behavior may refer to the tendency to over-analyze life situations, a behavioral pattern linked to its own set of problems and personal disturbances. Victims of over-analyzing patterns may lose interest or joy in normal circumstances, thus experiencing symptoms closely linked with depression. One problem, however, is that related thought patterns may be confused with the onset of depression itself, a development which may impede clinical treatment.

Similarities

• The primary similarity between compulsive disorder and overly-analytical behavior is that they both may indicate the patients need to protect themselves. As with the constant practice of cleanliness or ordering in OCD, over-analysis may serve to ward of perceived dangers and offer a safe place for the sufferer to reside. Each condition, however, indicates the potential to further isolate the individual from normal life-routines and deep social interaction.