Being me with ocd how I learned to obsess less and live my life
Part memoir, part self-help for teens, Being Me with OCD tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) dragged the author to rock bottom -- and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays, and thorou...
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Free Spirit Publishing,
2013.
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| Summary: | Part memoir, part self-help for teens, Being Me with OCD tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) dragged the author to rock bottom -- and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays, and thorough research, Dotson explains what OCD is and how readers with OCD can begin to get better. With humor, specific advice, and an inspiring, been-there-beat-that attitude, readers will find the book simultaneously touching and practical. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Format: | Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 26238 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 3829 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB). |
| Audience: | Grade 8 - Grade 9 1160L |
| ISBN: | 9781575425719 9781575426372 |
| Author Notes: | Alison Dotson is a writer, copyeditor, and proofreader who was diagnosed with OCD at age twenty-six, after suffering from "taboo" obsessions for more than a decade. Today, she still has occasional bad thoughts, but she now knows how to deal with them in healthy ways. Alison is the president of OCD Twin Cities, an affiliate of the International OCD Foundation, and the recipient of the 2016 International OCD Foundation Hero Award. Alison has also spoken about her experiences with OCD with several media outlets, including NBC, Khaleej Times, Blisstree, and Health.com, and in The Atlantic, Glamour, and The Huffington Post. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her two rescue dogs, Tuffy and Gracie. |
