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Recommended Ages: high school and adults

Plot Summary: Memoir that starts at earliest memory of being afraid and continues through adulthood. The author is an artist and doesn't want to use medicine to control his anxieties and OCD.

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Pacing: Very fast -- the inside is a very long picture book with just a few sentences per page and black and white cartoon illustrations
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pigeonlover | 5 andere besprekingen | Jul 17, 2022 |
My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WNDzDs7ZU

Enjoy!
 
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booklover3258 | 5 andere besprekingen | Sep 19, 2020 |
A couple people in my life suffer from OCD, so this pretty familiar territory for me. Katzenstein does a good job of outlining his lifelong struggles with plenty of candor and humor, but breezes along a bit too quickly and stays so much in his own head that the other people in his life are mentioned almost in passing. (Ironically and hopefully intentionally, one of his illustrations in the book meant to to criticize movies has an artist monologuing about his tortured existence, while his model off to the side smiles, stares off into space and declares, "I have no inner life of my own.")… (meer)
 
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villemezbrown | 5 andere besprekingen | Sep 9, 2020 |
An OCD graphic memoir that's equal parts harrowing and humorous.

(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Netgalley. Content warning for mental health issues.)

Jason Adam Katzenstein is just a kid when he starts developing irrational fears. It begins with a creepy statue in his grandparents' house; then he starts having nightmares about the Man with Red Eyes from A Wrinkle in Time. Next come the compulsions, such as the need to pick up every. single. piece. of. litter., in an attempt to boost his karmic points, a la The Good Place. These are closely followed by obsessions: with cleanliness and contamination and, later, feelings centered around guilt, panic, and relationships.

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Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words & Pictures is a graphic memoir outlining Jason's journey. As his OCD continues to escalate, his parents get divorced (it's his child development specialist, Mary, who breaks the news). He experiences aggressive outbursts and fights with his stepdad; turns to dieting and exercise as a means of controlling something, anything in his life; discovers the transformative power of art; goes to college, makes friends, falls in love. Along the way, another therapist diagnoses Jason with OCD. But it's not until he hits his rock bottom that he's able to undertake the difficult work of getting better: both by going on meds, which could affect his work, and by confronting and neutralizing his fears through Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), a form of Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT).

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Everything Is an Emergency hit me smack dab in the feels. Though I don't have OCD, I have struggled with social anxiety for as long as I can remember, and found so many of these panels relatable on a visceral level. The CBT/ERP scenes are especially agonizing, since I've been living my own version of this for the past three and a half years. But it's also counterbalanced by Jason's delightfully dark sense of humor, conveyed masterfully through his artwork.

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(This review is also available on Amazon, Library Thing, and Goodreads. Please click through and vote it helpful if you’re so inclined!)

http://www.easyvegan.info/2020/06/30/everything-is-an-emergency-by-jason-adam-ka...
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smiteme | 5 andere besprekingen | May 28, 2020 |

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