Neuroses and Programming

Are any of you guys neurotic? (Are all of you neurotic?)

I'm super neurotic. And I fear that, more than it helping me to program well, it gets in my way. I am obsessed with doing things the right way, and I begin to feel very uncomfortable if something I'm working on is becoming too complicated in the wrong way -- but somehow I'll be completely oblivious to how overblown my "clean and modular" solution ends up. But sometimes, the solution isn't obvious to me -- so if something is really stumping me, it eats my productivity and prevents me from feeling good about my work.

How do you deal with this? What general rules do you follow, and what do you do to put your mind at ease? For one thing, I'm thinking of getting a fish to put on my desk so that I can unload my stress on him.

>>22,24
Actually this is the other "best solution" to the neurosis is to code for someone else; when you're on the clock, and programming someone else's ideas instead of your own, you just get shit done and don't worry too much about how dirty it is. I work in the industry and unless you're building rockets, it pretty much works like that. When it's your own code and your own time though, it's a lot different.