Turtles All the Way Down by US author John Green’s, Aza Holmes – a bright, troubled teenager, as Green’s heroines generally are - goes through an ordeal so distressing it is difficult to read. Aza has obsessive compulsive disorder, and the “tightening gyre” of her thoughts has taken over. Green catapults his reader right into the middle of Aza’s desperate mental state as she becomes increasingly panicky over the possibility of being infected with the bacterium C. diff – “do you want to die of this do you want to die of this because you will you will you will you will” – eventually scooping handfuls of hand sanitizer into her mouth, gagging and vomiting as her mother tries to stop her.
Green,
who has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) himself, says it was “very
hard to write”. “I wrote it right at the last, in the last revision. That’s as
close to my experience as I could get.”
About the book http://www.johngreenbooks.com/turtles-all-the-way-down-book
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a
person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors
(compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over.
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