Control freak

Control freak is a colloquialism that is usually employed to describe a person obsessed with performing tasks in a way that they perceive as correct.

A control freak can become distressed when someone causes a deviation in the way that they prefer to perform tasks.

[1] Someone who tries to control how other people perform tasks, while having no good reason for interfering, can also be considered a control freak.

[2] Control freaks are often insecure and perfectionists.

[5] Furthermore, control freaks sometimes have similarities to codependents, in the sense that the latter's fear of abandonment leads to attempts to control those they are dependent on.