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Triggered: A Memoir Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2012)

by Fletcher Wortmann(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

142996278X (ISBN13: 9781429962780)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: I enjoyed the beginning of the book tremendously (about the first 120 pages or so), especially the author's witty humor but I found that as I continued to read the book the quality went downhill. There are some statements that are nigh inexcusable to me and on page 120 in my copy there is one of them. It states: "Other than that, I can only repeat my refrain: Please do not criticize me excessively, because I tried to kill myself before and may again." Maybe this statement was meant to be an attempt at dry humor but I find compelling people to not criticize your book or else you might harm yourself extremely distasteful. My abhorrence is exacerbated by the fact that later in the book he claims that he never attempted suicide, he only had suicidal thoughts. A fine line, but ... morestill enough to increase my displeasure at the statement.The author also spends much of his time talking about Pokemon, X-men, video games, and casual sexual encounters. Though you might expect casual sexual encounters to be at least a bit interesting, it all comes across as very petty and immature. He describes his first love as a deeply troubled woman, which she might have been, but it left me wondering if she had been diagnosed with all these disorders by a professional or if the author was just assuming these diagnoses based on behavior that he encountered. Overall, I was increasingly disappointed as I continued to read. I would encourage potential readers to read the first hundred pages or so and then stop, or better yet read Devil in the Details or other memoirs of individuals suffering from OCD.
review 2: If you didn't know anything at all about OCD, and you had never even heard of the disease, this book might prove enlightening. But if you have even a passing familiarity with it, you don't need to read this. Somehow the tone of the memoir is like a 12 year old bragging about his appendectomy scar. I wanted to sympathize with him but ending up sympathizing with everyone around him. I'm sorry and I hope he doesn't read this review and stick a fork in an electrical outlet. less

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