Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures by Katzenstein, Jason Adam

Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A brilliant, honest, necessary book that exposes the intricacies of the...
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Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures by Katzenstein, Jason Adam

Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures

$45.28

Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures

$45.28
Author: Jason Adam Katzenstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"A brilliant, honest, necessary book that exposes the intricacies of the human brain while showing us the way creativity and friendship can anchor us. This is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered if they see the world a little differently." -Ada Lim n

A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and funny

Jason Adam Katzenstein is just trying to live his life, but he keeps getting sidetracked by his over-active, anxious brain. Mundane events like shaking hands or sharing a drink snowball into absolute catastrophes. Jason has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a mental illness that compels him to perform rituals in order to protect himself from dangers that don't really exist. He checks, washes, over-thinks, rinse, repeat.

He does his best to hide his embarrassing compulsions, and sometimes this even works. He grows up, worries about his first kiss, falls in love with making cartoons, moves to New York City -- which is magical and gross, etc. All the while, half his energy goes into living his life, while the other half is devoted to the increasingly ridiculous rituals he's decided to maintain to keep himself from fully short-circuiting,

Then, he fully short-circuits.

At his absolute lowest, Jason finally decides to do the things he's always been told to do to get better: exposure therapy and medication. These are the things that have always freaked him out, and they continue to freak him out. Also, they help him recover.

Everything is an Emergency is a comic about all the self-destructive stories someone tells himself, over and over, until they start to seem true. In images surreal, witty, and confessional, Jason shows us that OCD can be funny, even when it feels like it's ruining your life.



Author: Jason Adam Katzenstein
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/30/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780062950079


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2020 pg. 76
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 04/06/2020
Booklist 06/01/2020 pg. 55

About the Author
Katzenstein, Jason Adam: - JASON ADAM KATZENSTEIN is a cartoonist and writer for print and television. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times and MAD Magazine, and on Cartoon Network. He is the illustrator of The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon and the graphic novel Camp Midnight. He is also a visiting professor at Wesleyan University.

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