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PublisherGallery Books
ISBN-101439192502
ISBN-139781439192504
eBay Product ID (ePID)92533015
Product Key Features
Book TitleNowhere Near Normal : a Memoir of Ocd
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicPsychopathology / Compulsive Behavior, People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, General, Medical
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Psychology
AuthorTraci Foust
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-047289
Dewey Edition22
eBook FormatContent Package
Dewey Decimal362.196/852270092 B
SynopsisIn the bestselling tradition of Augusten Burroughs, a compassionate, witty, and completely candid memoir that chronicles growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Traci Foust wasn't a "normal" seven-year-old girl. When all the neighborhood kids were playing outdoors, Traci was inside making sure the miniature Catholic saint statues in her windowsill always pointed due north, scratching out bald patches on her scalp, and snapping her fingers after every utterance of the word God . As Traci got older, her OCD blossomed to include panic attacks and other bizarre behaviors, including a fear of the sun, an obsession with contracting eradicated diseases, and the idea that she could catch herself on fire just by thinking about it.While stints of therapy--and lots of Nyquil--sometimes helped, nothing alleviated the fact that her single mother and mid-life crisis father had no idea about how to deal with her. So, it wasn't a total shock when she became a teenage runaway on the poetry slam beat in the hippie beach towns of Northern California and had to be dragged home by her family. It also wasn't too surprising when her mother could no longer stand the stress of having Traci under her roof, so Traci had a stint of living at a family-owned nursing home, in a room with a seventy-five-year old WWII Vet who kept mistaking her for a prostitute. In this heartfelt, funny, and candid account of her struggles with a variety of psychological disorders, Traci shows that there is nothing special about being "normal."
LC Classification NumberRC533.F86 2011
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