The Problem with Obsessive-Impulsive Brains
People who live around an obsessive person, always feel that they are walking on an eggshell and that there is something wrong. Because the obsessive brain doesn’t have the emotional or the empathy circuits but are feelings driven. Their body doesn’t operate with the hormone Serotonin and estrogen(our emotional hormones), but rather with a dopamine-adrenaline-driven instant feeling-based state.
If the Neuroticism is not handled properly, soon the brain starts making structural changes to deal with the frequent neurotic attacks. When the brain is structurally changed, the individual is more on the animalistic spectrum, rather than on the human spectrum. This phenomenon is called “Secondary Psychopathy.” If not addressed, the phenomenon then becomes primary psychopathy.
Such individuals are hyperfocused and often grows exponentially in their career. Because their brain inhibits any additional learning and is object-oriented (our limbic brain is a reward-punishment centric brain). It understands only profit or loss. This is a simplified brain that is governed by morality because higher-order values do not supply the decisions.
Therefore such individuals are good choices to run the system. Build a system and give it to them, the obsessive perfectionist brain runs the systems like a machine. They are the ones who grow in the top positions in the companies, due to their ability to relentlessly work on the same thing over and over again.
However, after a period of time, people around the obsessive person, always feeling on eggshells, experiencing extreme reactions and anger at times, become hypervigilant about not triggering this person. Because the obsessive individual switches towards an animalistic spectrum with each passing day, people around the individual slowly walk away from such individuals.
Because anxiety is a common phenomenon of such a compulsive-impulsive brain, hyperperfectionists suffer from social anxiety and hate being amongst too many people.
The habit brain is anti-creativity and because it doesn’t like any change, it doesn’t allow any changes, and therefore no innovation happens in the organization and in the entity such individuals operate. The very individuals whose obsessive compulsiveness resulted in the exponential growth of the organization then become responsible for the downfall of the organization.
After the age of 40, the body’s ability to produce adrenaline reduces, and the heart fails to handle any more pounding, and therefore they start having cardiovascular problems after this age. They can’t feel anyone around them, can not feel themselves, become extremely violent, irritated by the smallest of things, and react excessively. They try to control their children and the people around them.
And so the obsessive hyperperfectionist suffers from losses, personal, financial, and anything you say. Their feelings dip by this age, and because of a lack of emotions, they can not recover. It is like a body with a soul.
Therefore, such individuals must start taking a conscious effort and work towards activating their PFC and slowly over a period of 5-7 years increase the area of their brain and improve their life.