can a person have obsessive compulsive disorder and be obsessively untidy?

People are obsessive compulsive about specific things, and often times when a person is OCD something like the housekeeping can become so overwhelming (don't know where to start) that they won't do anything about it.

Although it is kind of rare, a person with OCD can be obsessively untidy. The more common obsessions are thoughts or fear of dirt/contamination, thoughts/fears of losing control and thoughts/fear of injury to others or self..The compulsions which are rituals that are repeated behaviors..the most common are..Excessoive hand washing, cleaning the house several times in one day, endless organizing of drawers, closets etc..Excessive list making,exercising and working, Checking and re-checking to make sure doors are locked, stoves are turned off etc etc.. The acts being repeated are attempts to reudce the ancxiety felt with the obession...

So with all that being said...A person can have OCD and be obsessively untidy but it is rare..

Yes. In fact this is very common. Instead of worry about things being clean enough, people obsess about if things are in the right places. Some people worry and can't stand the perfectness. OCD is not just about if things are clean or not clean enough. Its also doing things repeatedly. I knew this child once that worried he would be cursed if he didn't open and close the refrigerator at least 7 times. I have a fear that something awful will happen to me or my family if I don't use both paper towel dispensers in a public bathroom. It sounds ridiculous but its true. Good question.

yes the general perception of ocd is one of where people have to have everything tidy but ocd is obsessive compulsion and the compulsion can be anything from having certain things and others have the only even/odd numbers

yes absolutely although another symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder is fanatical neatness

Yes

Absolutely yes

yes! cleanliness and washing is just one compulsion. you can be compelled to do anything. i have ocd, i like to count. if i see any numbers i have to count them and simplify them to a single number. Some people have to check things over and over. some can't stop saying the same things over and over, or doing rituals over and over.

since i am not that organized i like to call it cluttered, yes, you can have ocd and not be neat.

OCD doesn't only pertain to cleanliness, it pertains to lots of things, but alot of times it isn't just OCD that cuases a person to be messy, but the person also has ADHD.

Obsessively untidy? No. That's just laziness and dislike of housework. OCDs usually go the other way and are super tidy and neat.