Puzzled : a memoir of growing up with OCD
Publication Information
New York : Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
Physical Description
224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Audience
Ages 10 years and up Rocky Pond Books.
Summary
"Pan Cooke is ten years old when anxious thoughts begin to take over his brain like pieces of an impossible puzzle. What if he blurts out a swear word while in church? What if he accidentally writes something mean in his classmate's get-well card? What if his friend's racy photo of a supermodel ends up in his own homework and is discovered by his teacher? More and more, he becomes hijacked by fears that can only be calmed through exhausting, time-consuming rituals. Pan has no way of knowing that this anxiety puzzle and the stressful attempts to solve it are evidence of a condition called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This is his story of living with and eventually learning about OCD. Told with endearing honesty and humor, Puzzled shows the reader the importance of empathy for oneself and those going through something they don't yet understand."--Amazon.com.
Subjects
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Neurodiversity > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children > Patients > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence > Patients > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Cooke, Pan.
- Cooke, Pan > Mental health.
- Cooke, Pan > Juvenile literature.
- Cooke, Pan > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Cooke, Pan > Mental health > Juvenile literature.
- Cooke, Pan > Mental health > Comic books, strips, etc.