Everything Is an Emergency
An OCD Story in Words & Pictures
(Sprache: Englisch)
A New Yorker cartoonist brings to life his struggle with OCD through his comedic voice and arresting drawings that illustrate his daily battle to feel comfortable in the world - and ultimately make room for a life without limitations
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A New Yorker cartoonist brings to life his struggle with OCD through his comedic voice and arresting drawings that illustrate his daily battle to feel comfortable in the world - and ultimately make room for a life without limitations
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New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice?A brilliant, honest, necessary book that exposes the intricacies of the human brain while showing us the way creativity and friendship can anchor us. This is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered if they see the world a little differently.? ?Ada Limón
A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and funny
Jason Adam Katzenstein is just trying to live his life, but he keeps getting sidetracked by his over-active, anxious brain. Mundane events like shaking hands or sharing a drink snowball into absolute catastrophes. Jason has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a mental illness that compels him to perform rituals in order to protect himself from dangers that don't really exist. He checks, washes, over-thinks, rinse, repeat.
He does his best to hide his embarrassing compulsions, and sometimes this even works. He grows up, worries about his first kiss, falls in love with making cartoons, moves to New York City ? which is magical and gross, etc. All the while, half his energy goes into living his life, while the other half is devoted to the increasingly ridiculous rituals he's decided to maintain to keep himself from fully short-circuiting,
Then, he fully short-circuits.
At his absolute lowest, Jason finally decides to do the things he's always been told to do to get better: exposure therapy and medication. These are the things that have always freaked him out, and they continue to freak him out. Also, they help him recover.
Everything is an Emergency is a comic about all the self-destructive stories someone tells himself, over and over, until they start to seem true. In images surreal, witty, and confessional, Jason shows us that OCD can be funny, even when it feels like it's ruining your life.
Autoren-Porträt von Jason A. Katzenstein
JASON ADAM KATZENSTEIN is a cartoonist and writer for print and television. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times and MAD Magazine, and on Cartoon Network. He is the illustrator of The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon and the graphic novel Camp Midnight. He is also a visiting professor at Wesleyan University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jason A. Katzenstein
- 2020, 256 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Masse: 15,3 x 20,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: HarperPerennial
- ISBN-10: 006295007X
- ISBN-13: 9780062950079
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.07.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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