Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive by Colas, Emily
Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive by Colas, Emily

Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive

As my friend the heroin addict says, You're only as sick as your secrets. Emily Colas --...
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SKU: 9780671024383
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Author: Emily Colas
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Language: English
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Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive by Colas, Emily

Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive

$35.86
Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive by Colas, Emily

Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive

$35.86
Author: Emily Colas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
As my friend the heroin addict says, You're only as sick as your secrets.
Emily Colas -- young, intelligent, well-educated wife and mother of two -- had a secret that was getting in the way of certain activities. Like touching people. Having a normal relationship with her husband. Socializing. Getting a job. Eating out. Like leaving the house. Soon there was no interval in her life when she was not
just checking
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. By the time she faced the fact that she was really losing it, Colas had become a slave to her own hobbies -- from the daily hair cutting to incessant inspections of her children's clothing for bloodstains.
A shocking, hilarious, enormously appealing account of a young woman struggling to gain control of her life, this is Emily Colas' expos of a soul tormented, but balanced by a buoyance of spirit and a piercing sense of humor that may be her saving grace.

Author: Emily Colas
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780671024383
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