Just Checking: Scenes from the life of an obsessivecompulsive
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As my friend the heroin addict says, Youre only as sick as your secrets.Emily Colas young, intelligent, welleducated 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 notjust checkingThis raw, darkly comic series of astonishing vignettes is Emily Colas achingly honest chronicle of her twisted journey through the obsessivecompulsive 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 childrens clothing for bloodstains.A shocking, hilarious, enormously appealing account of a young woman struggling to gain control of her life, this is Emily Colas expos 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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