Memoirs to read
- Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
- Passing for normal: Tourette’s OCD, and growing up crazy by Amy S. Wilensky
- Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a girl who couldn’t stop praying by Abby Sher
- My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me by Amanda Green
- Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD by Traci Foust
- Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive by Emily Colas
- Triggered: A memoir of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder by Fletcher Wortmann
- Life in a Whirlwind of Numbers: 26 years of OCD by David William Dalhberg
- I hardly ever wash my hands: the other side of OCD by J.J. Keeler
- Everything in its place: my trials and triumphs with obsessive compulsive disorder by Marc Summers
- Rewind Replay Repeat: A memoir of Obsessive Compulsive disorder by Jeff Bell
- The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the true story of a life lost in thought by David Adam
- Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought, Lily Bailey
- Obsessed: A Memoir of My life with OCD by Allison Britz
- Is Fred in the Refrigerator? Taming OCD and Reclaiming my Life by Shala Nicely
- Being Me with OCD: How I learned to Obsess Less and Live my Life by Alison Dotson
- The OCD Stories: Stories that Educate and Inspire those with OCD by Stuart Ralph
- Being Me with OCD: How I learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life by Alison Dotson
- Pure OCD by Chrissie Hodges
- Pure by Rose Cartridge
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