Surviving Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: One Man's Journey

by James Samuel Coleman

Surviving Obsessive Compulsive Disorder represents my thirty-five-year struggle to find symptom relief from the torment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms. I was a so-called “normal” person to everyone else but secretly I was enduring over 30 different OCD symptoms. My list of bizarre and strange symptoms will shock the reader. How could a brain go this wrong yet at the same time realize the complete irrationality of what it was doing? This started me on a lifelong journey to ?experiment with any medical treatment, therapy, support group, alternative medicine or anything else offering the slightness hint of working. It seemed like every medical journal, study or article I researched reported some small positive OCD outcome resulting in a never-ending search to try to find something to escape the misery of my OCD symptoms. Surviving Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is the culmination of everything I found out. The book also contains seldom discussed topics of generic drug pricing’s potential to significantly impact OCD mental health consumer’s lives, information on self-disclosure to friends, family, medical providers and employers, the tragic state of OCD humor in our society and variations on Imaginal Exposure as a treatment for consumers who refuse Exposure Response Prevention therapy.

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 15, 2017

About the author

James Samuel Coleman was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago. He was elected president of the American Sociological Association. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of the earliest users of the term "social capital." His Foundations of Social Theory influenced sociological theory. His "The Adolescent Society" (1961) and "Coleman Report" (Equality of Educational Opportunity, 1966) were two of the most cited books in educational sociology. The landmark Coleman Report helped transform educational theory, reshape national education policies, and it influenced public and scholarly opinion regarding the role of schooling in determining equality and productivity in the United States.

Reviews

[Harry Boehm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best explanation of Recovery, International I've seen

Anyone seeking relief not just from OCD symptoms but any mental health problem should read this book. So should professionals.