From what I have read (psychology) and also observed in my own life, every "maladaptive" set of thoughts and behaviors is just a distorted, self-defeating expression of something potentially good.

For example, you wrote "...I won't rest until an object is positioned the way my brain finds it harmonized...". From a certain point of view, that's what artists, interior decorators and landscapers do! The basic impulse itself is not the problem. What your mind does with that impulse (and if it keeps on doing something long after it is desirable to stop) is the problem.