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Life In Rewind (2009)

by Terry Weible Murphy(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061561533 (ISBN13: 9780061561535)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: This book started rather slowly, and I was a little frustrated by the idea that OCD is only triggered by some psychologically damaging event (since as far as I can tell, it can also occur for no apparent reason, or as a result of an infection, etc.). In the second half, as Ed Zine and Michael Jenike's relationship is explored, we learn more about OCD, the doctor-patient relationship, and therapies that actually work on OCD, the pace picks up a lot. Terry Weible Murphy does an amazing job of putting all the information into a readable story, while managing to convey something of how it feels to be trapped by OCD, to be a family member, or a doctor that can't do anything. The subtitle here is a little misleading - Michael Jenike didn't set Ed Zine free, Ed did it himself. Je... morenike provided a few of the tools, however.Interestingly, my copy has a different subtitle from the one portrayed here: "The Story of a Young Courageous Man Who Persevered Over OCD and the Harvard Doctor Who Broke All the Rules to Help Him." I think this one is better, giving more credit where it's due.
review 2: I guess it was curiousity that attracted me to this book. I've seen stuff about OCD on television, showing people with rituals about touching things, not stepping on cracks, and the like. I hoped to learn what goes on inside these people, that leads them to take up such behaviours. I can say I got more than I bargained for with this book. Not only does the book explain the case of one man who developed OCD: how it came on, (gradually at first), what he was thinking, and why he felt the need to observe so many difficult and immensely time consuming behaviors. It also shows how the disease narrowed his life to the point where he became a reclude, living in a single room, and having minimal contact with members of his family. He was like a possessed person, controlled by self imposed rituals that made his life torture. Fortunately, he was helped by a doctor who specialized in OCD. Although none of the drug therapies they tried helped him, and he didn't respond to the behaviour modification therapies they tried to teach him, somehow he got to a point where he realized OCD was his enemy and he successfully fought back. As much as it's a story about OCD, it's just as much a story about the strength of the human spirit and its ability to overcome adversity. less

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