Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought by Lily Bailey

1 review

faerie_smutprincess69's review

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

I knew what OCD typically looked like in behaviour (e.g. excessively and compulsively cleaning your hands and home because of disturbing thoughts around germs, or checking and locking doors and windows over and over because of fears around intruders, etc), but I didn't know what the inside of the mind of a person with OCD was like. The author, through first person, takes the reader through the journey of her life with her severely anxious and repetitive and disturbing intrusive thoughts that allow her no rest until she acts on her compulsions. And we, the reader, only get to feel her relief for a brief moment in time at the completetion of one of her many compulsions, before we are back to the steady and fast stream of anxious thoughts that plague the author exhausting existence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt