Contaminated, My Journey Out of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

By Gerry Radano

"Contaminated" describes the extraordinary journey Radano made to take back her life and triumph over Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a disease her doctors had pronounced incurable. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979228808
• ISBN13: 9780979228803
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Bar-Le-Duc Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Compulsively readable

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.