From Tortured to Almost Free: A Psychiatric Therapist's Life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1457547422 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Essential reading for those who struggle with OCD and for all who are determined to help them. Contact information for Cathy Goldstein Mullin: cgsierra@hotmail; cathygoldsteinmullin@hotmail. This book is often passed back and forth between Ms. Mullin has a private practice on the North Shore of Boston where she sees children, adolescents, and adults. She is also a staff therapist at a large teaching hospital. Changing these beliefs often is essential for getting well. Honest, unwavering, and raw, the author takes the reader along as she struggles to make it through a day, a day in which ordinary things such as cigarette butts, classroom closets, and the starting of an automobile engine create terror. Cathy Goldstein Mullin, LICSW, is a psychiatric therapist who specializes in treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in children, adolescents, and adults. Her first book If I Could Just Snap out of It, Don't You Think I Would? A Nine-Month Plan for Smashing Your Depression came out in 2012. No longer struggling as she did, she is determined to show others what severe OCD looks like and teach them how to get well. For the last several years, she has led workshops and given talks on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Ms. From Tortured to Almost Free: A Psychiatric Therapist's Life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is the story of the author's horrific struggle with severe OCD at a time when little to nothing was known about this
Heartfelt,honest, and So very brave. This book is a can't put down read.We all know someone perhaps ourselves who struggle through life with some OCD behaviors,so it may be easy for most of us to relate.An interesting and enjoyable read that helps us understand how brutal this illness can truly get.. A Must Read for those touched by OCD Edward J. Hart From Tortured to Almost Free, by Cathy Goldstein Mullin, LICSW, M.Ed.O.C.D. is often called “the Hidden Disorder”, because the outward manifestations may be few, but to those struggling with this disease, it is anything but “hidden”. OCD is a genetic disorder, and I, as a pediatric neurologist who sees many children with Tourette Disorder, am aware that it may occur as a comorbidity (associated condition) in this population of chil. but would be delighted to delve into the wonders of going from Tortured Pamela This author's shares her own very raw ordeal, in a practical approach, to living with a disorder that is extremely difficult and complex to understand; OCD. It is so torturous, on so many levels. So difficult to understand, and overcome.This book was simply riveting! I found myself immersed in her story; living her daily life. Wanting to understand more. How did she conquer this beast? I wanted to know. I needed to know; Not only from a clinical sense, bu