Using "anal" to mean "neater, more exacting than I am."

Using "compulsive" the same way.

I have a friend whose elderly aunt lives in a house stacked full of paper, mostly junk mail. There is room in the dining room for one lounge chair, in which she sits and sleeps. If anyone offers to remove any papers, she gets very anxious and won't allow it. That's compulsive.

But to psychobabblers, if I make a plaid blouse and match the plaid, I'm compulsive. What do they know?