01963cam a2200265 i 4500 343273563 TxAuBib 20180411120000.0 180330s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062696168 26.99 0062696165 26.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Bailey, Lily. Because we are bad [BOOK] : OCD and a girl lost in thought / Lily Bailey. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. viii, 257 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series of secret routines could she make up for what she'd done. But no matter how intricate or repetitive, no act of penance was ever enough. Beautifully written and astonishingly intimate, Because We Are Bad recounts a childhood consumed by obsessive compulsive disorder. As a child, Bailey created a second personality inside herself-"I" became "we"-to help manifest compulsions that drove every minute of every day of her young life. Now she writes about the forces beneath her skin, and how they ordered, organized, and urged her forward. Lily charts her journey, from checking on her younger sister dozens of times a night, to "normalizing" herself at school among new friends as she grew older, and finally to her young adult years, learning-indeed, breaking through-to make a way for herself in a big, wide world that refuses to stay in check. Provided by publisher. 20180411. Models (Persons) Biography. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Patients Biography. Biographies.