The true story of a teenager with OCDExtremely compellingTHE GUARDIANRemarkableWASHINGTON POSTA beautifullyrendered memoir PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBecause We Are Badis a gripping, fastpaced nonfiction memoir that takes you inside the invisible war of obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) where a single intrusive thought can feel like a verdict, and where the mind insists that certainty is the only form of safety.From the outside, Lily is a bright, capable girl navigating school, friendships, and family life. On the inside, her days are governed by dread unwanted images, taboo thoughts, sudden spikes of anxiety, and the persistent fear that thinking something "bad" means being bad.OCD is not neat, quirky, or harmless in this story. It is urgent, intelligent, and exhausting an illness that hijacks logic, steals time, and makes ordinary moments feel dangerous.Written with razorsharp clarity and literary elegance,Because We Are Badhas the pace of a thriller a pageturning true story of rituals and mental compulsions, of moral panic and secret rules, of the desperate bargains made to keep disaster away.Lily Bailey captures the looping nature of obsession the way intrusive thoughts return, mutate, and demand new answers while showing how shame and silence can tighten the trap. This is narrative nonfiction at its most intimate an OCD memoir that turns a private disorder into a vivid, cinematic reading experience.Yet this is not only a story of suffering. It is also a story of survival,...

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Canbury Press LTD; Classification: BTP; Weight: 330 g; Dimensions: 195 x 131 x 16

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