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Turtles All The Way Down
Turtles All The Way Down
John Green | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.4 (60 Ratings)
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Realistic and heartfelt (4 more)
Funny
Mental health issues
Relatable
Quotable
Describes anxiety and OCD better than anything I’ve read
  
600 Hours of Edward (Edward, #1)
600 Hours of Edward (Edward, #1)
8
9.0 (2 Ratings)
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A sweet thought-provoking tale about Edward - a man with OCD and aspergers. Cleverly written it takes the reader on a journey to understand Edward's condition but, more importantly, to get to know the man behind his disabilities. Powerful insights are revealed which actually open windows not only into mental illness but human nature. I enjoyed this book.
  
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TheDefunctDiva (304 KP) created a post

May 10, 2019  
Unreasonably angry about being pill shamed on other social media. OCD isn’t something that fixes itself in many cases, some of us are unlucky enough to actually require medication. Remember Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets??? I’m starting to develop his personality disorder too. All because ignorance seems to rule the world. Back to your regularly scheduled programming, lol...
     
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TheDefunctDiva (304 KP) created a post

Jun 7, 2019  
Was interviewed by Bloomberg news reporter today concerning high cost of OCD med. I will let you all know if any of my stuff gets included in final piece. He found me through my mental illness blog. I have an orb on here about mental illness as well if any of you want to check it out. Yay! Mental health FTW!!!
     
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A$ap Rocky recommended Late Registration by Kanye West in Music (curated)

 
Late Registration by Kanye West
Late Registration by Kanye West
2005 | Rhythm And Blues
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"When College Dropout dropped, I was fucking with 'Ye, but I wasn't one of those big-ass Kanye fans. By the time Late Registration came out, I was a big-ass Kanye fan. I was a fucking Kanye fanatic. After that, everybody started riding the bandwagon. I'm one of those complicated OCD motherfuckers, where I can't be doing everything that everyone else is doing. I didn't want no parts of it."

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Turtles All The Way Down
Turtles All The Way Down
John Green | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.4 (60 Ratings)
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Mental Health Issues (3 more)
Plot
Characters
Quoteable
It ended (0 more)
John Green Does It Again
I will start off by saying that I love John Green. His books have always been a favorite of mine. Looking For Alaska is a book I will gravitate towards over and over again. He has such a great writing style with the most beautiful quotes. I can't get over it if we're being honest.
Mental health is a big and important topic. With something so big comes a lot of responsibility when writing about it. John Green nails it. The way he talks about Aza's OCD and how he describes her thought processes is amazing. You really start to bond with the character and feel for her. BUT, not only do you feel for her, you get frustrated with her because you start to get invested. The way that she navigates her life, her thoughts, her relationships, her everything is so well thought out by John.
I think this book has started a lot of really important conversations. People are talking about OCD. How to cope with someone who has OCD. How to cope with having it yourself. How to seek help and know that there ARE great resources out there that people don't know about. Best of all, it's helping to take away the awful stigma that seems to be attached to mental illness and mental health.
Thank you, John Green. Your books bring me peace.
  
Because We are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Because We are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey | 2016 | Biography
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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Lily Bailey (0 more)
A true Journey of the mind
Wow, what a tale of loss, love, and everything in between leading to ultimate redemption and recovery.
This will make you laugh, make you cry, you will feel sadness, empathy, sympathy and laugther all at the same time.
I would say this is majorly helpful to anyone suffering with ocd as it made me feel glad, almost like huh it's not just me, it was so relatable and you can get a very real sense of the author's pain and turmoil dealing with the rigors of daily life with ocd on her back.
From her days at school to uni to working and all the times between this has indeed been a roller-coaster ride of emotion especially considering the author is still in her 20s.
Hopefully she opens up again in future and shares more of her journey.
I am personally thankful lily Bailey shared this with us.
  
Shutter Island (2010)
Shutter Island (2010)
2010 | Action, Drama, Mystery
Is he there or isn't he
A great thriller about a man sent to investigate the death of woman. He head problems and is kind of OCD in the way he does things. This is a close look into the eye of a detective who is obsessed with solving a murder

It is hard to write a good review cause I would be afraid that anything would give it away. This is a movie you need to see all the way through and learn the ending just to go back and spot the reasons why.
  
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Bysa (2 KP) rated Sometimes I Lie in Books

Sep 19, 2018  
Sometimes I Lie
Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
6
7.8 (17 Ratings)
Book Rating
I think OCD characters are overdone these days. Whenever I encounter one, I literally cringe.

I was annoyed with the slow progression before I even made it half way through the book. It was rather confusing at times.

I expected a less than reliable narrator given the title, but the misdirection was not executed well and ultimately irritated me.

The plot twists used were not believable. I found myself thinking the storyline was convoluted. Fiction or not, the reader expects believability.

I give 3 stars because although I'm not a fan of the storyline or theme, the author still put out two hundred and forty some odd pages of error free type and tried. Kudos to them for that.
  
History Is All You Left Me
History Is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
8
7.3 (6 Ratings)
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I love everything Adam Silvera comes up with and every time it's soul destroying, He so carefully creates his characters and you feel their emotions and heartache and damn does he know how to make you feel. As soon as I read the summary I knew that this was the book for me, it had everything I love in fiction and it didn't disappoint. It's raw and honest from the first age to the last page and even though you find out about the history and present simultaneously you're still constantly uncovering things you didn't expect. He also handles the topic of OCD very well, it's not romanticized and it's portrayed as very very real.