Body Punishment

OCD, Addiction and Finding the Courage to Heal
Author: Maggie Lamond Simone

A profoundly heartbreaking, yet inspiring story of a professionally successful woman and her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and addiction.

Humor columnist Maggie Lamond Simone’s painful journey provides insight for the thousands of others who similarly cut, starve, pick, drink, pluck, purge, and otherwise hurt themselves in private in order to survive in public.

She explores the issues of substance abuse, anxiety, and depression that commonly occur with OCD, all in an effort to further the dialog around mental illness and eliminate the shame, because “the shame . . . the shame is a killer.”