I used to straighten the pictures in OTHER people's houses 
Unlike you, I've never enjoyed housework so, as soon as I could afford it, I hired a cleaner (8 hrs a week for a 2-bed flat) and straightened /cleaned /tidied /wiped /plumped /etc everything before I went to bed. And before I went to work.
Now I'm a complete slob, living amongst ever-growing piles of dusty "things waiting to be done". This is mainly due to illness but also, crucially, a reactionary phase. I'm sure I'll get around to inventing ways to achieve reasonable living standards within my physical constraints :) This is what you need to aim for, too, Bree: reasonable!
Whilst I was super-clean, I was unconsciously reacting to imagined criticism. I shan't go into where it came from; I've documented that extensively on here already. More to the point, I was unaware of the incessant stream of negative chatter that ran through my mind, nagging and criticising and warning of ... well, of being shunned by the rest of the human race, of being found despicable, of losing control ... dreadful, terrible things that were completely disproportionate to matters of home management.
What I've described isn't technically OCD but it's a hair's breadth away. OCD sufferers knowingly believe the world will implode if they don't do their rituals. I was capable of leaving home without cleaning, and did logically know nothing bad would happen. But I was hopelessly unaware of the inner slave driver (later christened Fucky Nora) running on repeat in the recesses of my subconscious.
Most frenzied housekeepers have something similar. Some have inner nags with a different script: hygiene is a popular alternative theme ("my family will die if I don't obliterate every single bacterium, etc"). What they all share is the desperately urgent need to CONTROL stuff before the stuff makes unspeakably dreadful things happen.
As you can see, this is quite a bit like OCD and also like phobias. These things can be fixed (sometimes only partially, but partial is an improvement!) relatively easily. It involves recognising and understanding your inner critic, then coming to an agreement with it that its fears are a bit out of whack. Once you've 'agreed' you can start replacing its doom-laden directives with more reasonable ones, like "That'll do for now" and "It looks nice already, I'll just leave it until tomorrow".
I did this stuff with therapists - I have had very ingrained, complex stuff in there - but quite a few folks can do it by themselves. You might want to compromise by going to see a counsellor or hypnotherapist for just a few sessions, to help find the best way for you personally.
To begin, I offer you my new mantra: Good enough is just fine! 