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Colas, Emily

 
9780671024383: Just Checking: Scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0671024388 ISBN 13 : 9780671024383
Editeur : Washington Square Press, 1999

Synopsis

As my friend the heroin addict says, "You're only as sick as your secrets."
Emily Colas -- young, intelligent, well-educated wife and mother of two -- had a secret that was getting in the way of certain activities. Like touching people. Having a normal relationship with her husband. Socializing. Getting a job. Eating out. Like leaving the house. Soon there was no interval in her life when she was not
just checking
This raw, darkly comic series of astonishing vignettes is Emily Colas' achingly honest chronicle of her twisted journey through the obsessive-compulsive disorder that came to dominate her world. In the beginning it was germs and food. By the time she faced the fact that she was really "losing it," Colas had become a slave to her own "hobbies" -- from the daily hair cutting to incessant inspections of her children's clothing for bloodstains.
A shocking, hilarious, enormously appealing account of a young woman struggling to gain control of her life, this is Emily Colas' exposé of a soul tormented, but balanced by a buoyance of spirit and a piercing sense of humor that may be her saving grace.

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À propos de l'auteur

Emily Colas is an author. Her book Just Checking: Scenes From the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive, illustrates her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the effects it had on her life and family. She lives in Los Angeles

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The deeply disturbing, hysterically funny, achingly honest memoir of a young woman with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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Éditeur
Washington Square Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0671024388
ISBN 13 
9780671024383
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
178
Coordonnées du fabricant
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