Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00VMQUIEO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Janet Singer said A Well-Written, Honest Account of OCD. Bieber is an intelligent, introspective, gifted writer and he brings the reader right along with him as he tries to make sense of a disorder that he readily admits makes no sense.He explores his OCD from all angles, including delving into his knowledge. Amazing essays that built my insights and empathy for those struggling with OCD The essays in Life in the Loop helped me see the world more clearly. Like most people, I've heard about OCD, joked about OCD, had friends and family that mentioned their struggles with OCD but never understood it at all. I watched Monk on TV and though. BC Nguyen said The salvage lies in the details.. Matt Bieber's writing in this collection is utterly earnest and personal. For people with any types of suffering, the salvage lies in close attention to the details of daily manifestations of the struggle. Life in the Loop provides that. It also brings
I have read many first-personaccounts about what it is like to have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but fewhave affected me as much as Matt Bieber's essays. -- TRACI FOUST, AUTHOR OFNOWHERE NEAR NORMAL: A MEMOIR OF OCD. -- JANET SINGER, AUTHOR OF OVERCOMING OCD: A JOURNEY TO RECOVERY Bieber's essays of hope and hurting, of findingout what you can accomplish through being okay with what you cannot, are a rarething in this PC day and age of Everything's Awesome. He is a superb writer.When I'm reading his words, I come as close as I possibly can toknowing what it feels like to have the disorder
Life in the Loop is a collection of nineteen essays on life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In the book, I seek to show how OCD plays out across a range of topics and concerns – self and other, sex and relationships, politics and religion, even space and time. Out of that empathy, understanding can begin to grow.. The pieces are deeply personal, but they range in style – from traditional biographical narrative to quasi-poetry to brief, Nietzsche-style essays and aphorisms.OCD isn’t just an isolated set of tics and fears; it’s a pervasive way of being in the world, an orientation that colors everything. (My parents would have mortgaged their house to know what a day in my teenage life felt like.) In the absence of rational explanations, a view from where your loved one sits is the next best thing. I write about OCD as I experience it: in dips and phases and quarter-turns of the kaleidoscope.I wrote these essays to help me survive. But as I began publishing them on my blog (mattbieber) and later in magazines,
Matt Bieber is a freelance writer based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.His work has appeared in The Believer, Aeon, Shambhala Sun, The DallasMorning News, and elsewhere. He has also written speeches for Vice President Joe Biden.Matt's second book, co-authored with TimothyPatrick McCarthy, will be released in 2016. You can read more of Matt's work - and listen to The OCD Podcast - at mattbieber.