Before I start talking about the book I have chosen to read, I would like to describe how I came to my decision upon choosing the book. When I first saw we had to read a memoir I was nervous because I have never read one. So the first thing I decide to do was find what a memoir was. After learning what a memoir was I felt less anxiety because I knew what I would be dealing with. My next step in continuing this project was figuring out which book I had to read. Our professor gave us a list options to read dealing with different mental health issues such as bipolar, OCD, Depression, Alcoholism, and Schizophrenia. I chose a book with OCD because I felt I could relate to this disorder a lot. This led me to my option, which was Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of Obsessive Compulsive.
The book was written by Emily Colas, which makes it an autobiography, in 1998.
She writes the books providing small journals of her daily life with her OCD. She is
usually obsessed with the idea of being poisoned by drugs slipped into her food or
contaminated by germs from needles or diseased blood. At first she shares her fears with
her husband, requiring him to taste the food on her plate before she eats it or to question
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Her husband always tells her that she wont get any disease by touching the blood and does his best to convince her. Her mother tells her she wont get any disease from touching blood because that is not her karma. Her heroin friend who suffers from another anxiety disorder, which was not named in the book, told her to always go to therapy and take her medications. At first Emily did not listen to her advice but by the end of the book she took the advice. Lastly, Emily starting doing yoga and her instructor feels tension in Emily and tells her relax. Doing yoga kept Emily’s mind off OCD and it was the only time she said where she felt
The book was written by Emily Colas, which makes it an autobiography, in 1998.
She writes the books providing small journals of her daily life with her OCD. She is
usually obsessed with the idea of being poisoned by drugs slipped into her food or
contaminated by germs from needles or diseased blood. At first she shares her fears with
her husband, requiring him to taste the food on her plate before she eats it or to question
waiters about …show more content…
Her husband always tells her that she wont get any disease by touching the blood and does his best to convince her. Her mother tells her she wont get any disease from touching blood because that is not her karma. Her heroin friend who suffers from another anxiety disorder, which was not named in the book, told her to always go to therapy and take her medications. At first Emily did not listen to her advice but by the end of the book she took the advice. Lastly, Emily starting doing yoga and her instructor feels tension in Emily and tells her relax. Doing yoga kept Emily’s mind off OCD and it was the only time she said where she felt