This book, which is part memoir and part self help, is arranged in a question/answer format to allow teenage readers to quickly locate the parts of the book they find helpful.
The Ray of Hope: A Teenager’s Fight Against Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Being Me with OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life
A woman’s journey from confusion to diagnosis to eventual triumph. Alison Dotson shares her recovery path in detail, offering hope and inspiration for anyone suffering.
Stolen Child: A Mother’s Journey to Rescue Her Son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Stolen Child examines a horrifying year in one family’s life, the lengths the parents went to to help their son, and how they won the battle against his all-consuming disorder.
From Tortured to Almost Free: A Psychiatric Therapist’s Life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Sharing with her readers all she has learned, the author provides a hands-on course in what severe OCD looks like and what it takes to get well.
An OCD Life
This book depicts the life of Fred Mletzko, an accomplished Coast Guard Officer and High School Math Teacher and Coach, who, despite struggling with OCD, has achieved numerous goals and had many interesting experiences throughout his life. His example will offer those with OCD hope for the future.
Fixation Pains: A True Struggle for Survival
A candid memoir exploring one man’s journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), clinical depression, and the search for stability amid personal and family turmoil.
Life in Rewind: The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered Over OCD and the Harvard Doctor Who Broke All the Rules to Help Him
The captivating true story of promising young athlete’s sudden descent into severe mental illness, and the brilliant Harvard doctor who broke through the boundaries of traditional medicine to save him.
Is Fred in the Refrigerator?: Taming OCD and Reclaiming My Life
Writing with wry wit, unflinching candor, and resounding insight, Shala takes readers on a riveting journey into the dark and dimly understood inner workings of OCD and its frequent co-conspirator, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
Contaminated: My Journey Out of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The extraordinary journey Radano made to take back her life and triumph over a disease her doctors had pronounced incurable.
“It’ll be Okay:” How I Kept Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) from Ruining My Life
How a young Marine officer, attorney, and family man faced and overcame a relentless “enemy” called OCD.