The author of Living with Severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has suffered with this disorder every moment of her life. Intended to enlighten others, the medical community, as well as the general public, Marie Gius’s account puts a personal stamp on this debilitating mental illness, including her five psychiatric hospital confinements and her attempted suicide.

Step into Carol Kay Green’s shoes for a while and journey into the mind of the mentally ill. She knows the way. Green is not a medical professional surmising what a patient must be thinking. She is not a scientist explaining what is going on in the brain. Nor is she a family member discussing a mentally ill relative. Green speaks from direct knowing. She is one who has lived through mental institutions, remembers what happened, and has the courage to tell us what it is like from the inside. Hers is a personal account of what was felt, thought, and experienced as she moved from overwhelming confusion in her mental instability to tentative attempts in initiative, and finally, to declared self-confidence in her reintroduction to the outside world.