Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things) (Audiobook)

from verka6811

Ever since she was little, Abby Sher had the tendency of doing things in certain order, or for a certain amount of times, or collecting specific pieces of garbage. Abby also had the tendency to pray non-stop. "Amen, Amen, Amen" is Abby Sher's account of growing up with obsessive-compulsive disord...

from Juva

A very intimate and captivating memoir about growing up with extremely intense OCD. Abby Sher has been dealing with it her whole life, but when her father dies, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she some how caused his death. Thus begins a series of atoning habits that slowly expand to cons...

from Sararush

Something like Abby Sher's Amen, Amen, Amen. As a young girl Sher starts collecting trash, repeating phrases and songs, ritually kissing her father's pictures until it wears away, and imagining horrific accidents of which she was the cause. In high school she's begins praying and it soon becomes ...

from timeenuf

A fascinating autobiography of a person truly suffering from OCD. In this day and age when so many people throw that term around loosely, the account of OCD in this book was a real eye-opener for me. The title comes from the author's main form of OCD, which she calls "quiet time" -- an obsessive ...

from timeenuf

A fascinating autobiography of a person truly suffering from OCD. In this day and age when so many people throw that term around loosely, the account of OCD in this book was a real eye-opener for me. The title comes from the author's main form of OCD, which she calls "quiet time" -- an obsessive ...