Bibliograph

Coming clean, living with OCD, Hayley Leitch ; with Veronica Clark

Type

Label

Coming clean, living with OCD, Hayley Leitch ; with Veronica Clark

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coming clean

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

encyclopediasdictionaries

Oclc number

881887217

Responsibility statement

Hayley Leitch ; with Veronica Clark

Sub title

living with OCD

Summary

HAYLEY LEITCH WAS JUST FOUR WHEN SHE FELT THE NEED TO JUMP HER FATHER'S FISHPOND. SMALL FOR HER AGE AND UNABLE TO SWIM, HAYLEY ALMOST DROWNED, BUT SHE COULDN'T STOP HERSELF. One compulsion followed another until soon Hayley was performing exhausting rituals and was plagued by intrusive thoughts every day. As she grew, Hayley became obsessed with germs. She washed her hands with neat bleach and scrubbed her house for hours on end. Her fear of contamination was so crippling it prevented her from holding her babies at birth because her illness required the blood to be wiped fr

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1: NANNY ROSE; CHAPTER 2: JUMPING THE FISHPOND; CHAPTER 3: FEAR OF EATING OUT; CHAPTER 4: BREAK-UPS AND MAKEUP; CHAPTER 5: BEING BULLIED, MOVING HOME AND LOSING MY WAY; CHAPTER 6: WORKING WOMAN; CHAPTER 7: MEETING ROB; CHAPTER 8: HIDING IN ROB'S ROOM; CHAPTER 9: BURNING SKIN; CHAPTER 10: REARRANGING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE; CHAPTER 11: MORNING SICKNESS AND BLEACH; CHAPTER 12: GERMS ON THE MATERNITY WARD; CHAPTER 13: STERILE WORLD; CHAPTER 14: THE DOUBTING DISEASE; CHAPTER 15: NEAT BLEACH; CHAPTER 16: IMMACULATE BRIDE; CHAPTER 17: COMING CLEANCHAPTER 18: FAME AND OCDCHAPTER 19: LIFE AND DEATH; CHAPTER 20: OCD AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS; CHAPTER 21: WASHING THE CAT; CHAPTER 22: HOPE, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS; OCD ACTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMEMTS; Plates; Copyright

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