Just checking
Subtitle: scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive
By: Emily Colas
Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Colas, Emily; Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Patients -- Biography; Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Popular works
Genres: Biography
Description: "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.
Notes: "Featuring a reading group guide"--Cover