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Control freak
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<p>Control freak is a <a href="/facts/Colloquialism/HvEweYjS">colloquialism</a> that is usually employed to describe a person who feel a psychological need to be in charge of things and people around them. A control freak can become <a href="/facts/Distress_(medicine)/unfYpr3o">distressed</a> when they feel things are going out of control. The feel of the need to control is often attributed to the underlying fear of losing control over their lives. </p><p>This expression was introduced around the 1960s and it is not a clinical one. </p>