Washing my life away: surviving obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Author:
- DEANE Ruth
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 95p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects one in fifty people. In this personal account the author shares her own experience as an OCD sufferer, from the first innocuous signs of onset to the devastating effect of the condition on her relationships with her family and friends, her self-esteem and her marriage. The author takes the reader on a moving, honest and at times light-hearted journey, from washing her hands until they cracked and bled, to hospital admission and eventual management and recovery from OCD.
- Subject terms:
- life story books, mental health problems, obsessive compulsive disorders, traumas;
- ISBN print:
- 1 84310 33 8