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A Memoir of OCD
Gallery Books
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 1439192502
EAN: 9781439192504
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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."
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