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040			_aKenya National Library Service
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100			_aBailey, Lily _eauthor
245			_aBecause we are bad : _bOCD and a girl lost in thought / _cLily Bailey.
300			_a255 pages : _c20 cm.
520			_a Beautifully written and astonishingly intimate, Because We Are Bad recounts a childhood consumed by obsessive compulsive disorder. As a child, Bailey created a second personality inside herself-"I" became "we"-to help manifest compulsions that drove every minute of every day of her young life. Now she writes about the forces beneath her skin, and how they ordered, organized, and urged her forward. Lily charts her journey, from checking on her younger sister dozens of times a night, to "normalizing" herself at school among new friends as she grew older, and finally to her young adult years, learning-indeed, breaking through-to make a way for herself in a big, wide world that refuses to stay in check. Charming and raw, harrowing and redemptive, Because We Are Bad is an illuminating and uplifting look into the mind and soul of an extraordinary young woman, and a startling portrait of OCD that allows us to see and understand this condition as never before.
650			_aNervous Disorders : Autism, Anorexia, OCD
650			_aNeuroses.
650			_aNeuropsychiatry.
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