Review: Harrowing but heartening
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 31, 2012
I had only a vague knowledge and understanding of OCD before I read this ebook. I knew about the plug and lock checking. Indeed, when I was first married and we were living in my parents' house with our new baby, every night would be disturbed by my sister sneaking through the door and crawling across the floor in the darkness to check we'd removed the TV plug from its wall socket. It was a very old house, with old wiring, so we understood and didn't mind too much. Her mental health did get worse, however, ending in a form of what is now called anorexia, from which she happily recovered after a life-threatening physical illness brought on by this.What this ebook and my sister's experiences show is that there is light at the end of the tunnel when help is sought or, as in my sister's case, forcibly given. The descriptions of the disintegration of the writer's life are truly harrowing, but those of her recovery, born of her own resilience and the help of a loving family, are heartening to the same degree. I think it's wonderful that the author has gone on to have a happy life and give birth to her creativity through the discovery of her writing talent. This story is a page-turner in its own right, and at the end the reader exults at this demonstration that the human spirit can prevail over terrible darkness and learn to once more live in the light.