Similar, but not quite the same. And not really a good thing on either extreme. It also depends on what your definition is for control freak. Is it making plans and they have to be "just so", or is it that everyone around you needs to do what you think they should do?
Wikipedia to the rescue for good definitions:
Manipulative: ...aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.
Control Freak: ...a derogatory term for a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done
I was thinking more like the difference between calm understanding (control) and panic attack (lack of control). Only in this case I'm referencing someone who is obsessed with keeping and maintaining that control out of fear of the lack of control. It's not necessarily someone who gets off on dictating to others, like a micro-manager, although I understand that my description is the base reasoning behind the micro-manager personality type.
That distinction kind of answers my own question. A control freak in this instance is reaching and grasping for a particular state of mind. Manipulation, then, would just be a possible means to an end compared to other ways and means of reaching that same end.
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Date: 2011-08-30 05:42 pm (UTC)Wikipedia to the rescue for good definitions:
Manipulative: ...aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.
Control Freak: ...a derogatory term for a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done
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Date: 2011-08-30 06:16 pm (UTC)I was thinking more like the difference between calm understanding (control) and panic attack (lack of control). Only in this case I'm referencing someone who is obsessed with keeping and maintaining that control out of fear of the lack of control. It's not necessarily someone who gets off on dictating to others, like a micro-manager, although I understand that my description is the base reasoning behind the micro-manager personality type.
That distinction kind of answers my own question. A control freak in this instance is reaching and grasping for a particular state of mind. Manipulation, then, would just be a possible means to an end compared to other ways and means of reaching that same end.