Everyday for 14 years Gerry Radano sat alone on her living room couch riveted in fear and suffering repeated panic attacks. Everyday, Gerry sprayed an entire can of Lysol on everything she touched, changed her clothes six to eight times a day, and washed her hands over 200 times to avoid the germs that she was convinced were contaminating her. Everyday for 14 years, Gerry woke up with the same prayer, "Please God, let me die today." Gerry suffered with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a neurological brain disease that affects 1 in 40 people, or nearly seven million Americans. OCD may have taken her mind but it did not take her spirit. Contaminated describes the extraordinary journey Radano made to take back her life and triumph over a disease her doctors had pronounced incurable
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WARNING: Offers little to no HOPE,
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This review is from: Contaminated, My Journey Out of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Paperback)
If you are purchasing this book because you suffer from OCD or have a loved one suffering from the OCD this book offers little to no hope. I myself wanted to see how someone can get out of the hell of sever OCD, and unfortunately Radano overcomes her OCD with help of an extremely experimental surgery. A surgery which is pretty much unattainable for most people. Instead of lifting this up, this book has made me feel more hopeless than before.
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I think this is the most readable of the OCD books; in fact I finished it in one sitting. It's also the only one written by someone who actually went through a leucotomy. Any professional who works with OCD should read it, especially someone who doesn't make a specialty of OCD but sees the occasional OCD patient. I'd still recommend Foa and Foa's "Stop Obsessing" as first choice as a self-help book, and, of course, there are several WEB sites which Radano lists in an appendix. The book's message seemed ultimately optimistic to me, and it didn't claim that leucotomy was the only hope. If fact one of the difficulties is assessing the effectiveness of brain surgery is that many OCD victims do recover spontaneously. If anything she emphasizes the role of the enabler, the person, usually a family member, who tries to help the patient but ends up helping the illness. Radano recovered almost a year after her gamma knife procedure, when her long-suffering husband finally got fed up and left her.
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