Just checking
scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive
by Emily Colas
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"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 - to her mind, anything from ground-up hypodermic needles to disease-tainted blood could be on her restaurant plate. By the time she faced the fact that she was really "losing it," Colas had become a slave to her own "hobbies," from the frenetic daily hair trims she gave herself to the incessant inspections of her children's clothes for bloodstains, the carpet for dangerous debris, packaged goods for possible tampering. Soon there was no interval in Colas' life when she was not just checking."--BOOK JACKET.
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Patients, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Popular works, Biography, Personal Narratives, Compulsive behaviorPeople
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Just checking: scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive
1999, Washington Square Press
in English
- 1st trade pbk. ed
0671024388 9780671024383
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Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive (Oc
Apr 01, 1998, Diane Pub Co
hardcover
0756756766 9780756756765
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Just checking: scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive
1998, Pocket Books
in English
067102437X 9780671024376
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"I like to make stars in my head, or trace them with my finger."
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