Cypros
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Shadow205 said:http://www.ocfoundation.org/1005/m500a_001.htm
Cypros, that site seems to have some good info including support groups. Maybe there is something there that might help you with your Mom.
Thanks, Shadow. I will see if I can slip this information to her without her becoming defensive. I know she doesn't recognize herself as compulsive. Just the other day, she was just fretting about her DIL the other day who is compulsive in the excessively neat, can't relax, has to have everything planned and perfectly executed sort of way. I told her that I thought many people have compulsive tendencies and that her DIL reminds me a bit of HER when I was a kid. She baulked at that. LOL! As I said, she is now the opposite so it is hard to remember sometimes.
Ang50, I, too, can understand these people to a certain level because I recognize some of the tendencies in myself, except not so extreme, and I have managed to rid myself of some of the behaviors that I developed as a child when home life was chaotic and unstable (despite my mom's efforts to make the HOUSE look like an image from Home and Gardens).