Triggered
by Fletcher Wortmann
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Critic Rating
84%
Critic Reviews: 8
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Reader Rating
90%
Reader Ratings: 26
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Synopsis
Mark Vonnegut meets Chuck Klostermann in this poignant, comic, and richly literate memoir of growing up with OCD and undergoing A Clockwork Orange-like "trigger" therapy. A brilliant young author takes us on a journey through the agonizing psychological landscape of mental illness as populated by God, girls, and apocalyptic nightmares. Even more than this, the author emerges as a preternatural talent and voice of the millennial age. In this acid bath of a... more
About Fletcher Wortmann
Published: March 27, 2012 by Macmillan Publishers
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Health, Fitness & Dieting. Non-fiction. 272 pages
- All Critics: 8
- Positive: 8
- Negative: 0
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Publishers Weekly | 31 Oct 2011
Wortmann developed strategies for coping with OCD through high school and his college years at Swarthmore, including mastering video games and listening to David Bowie.
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Psych Central
I think this book will bring many people to a new understanding of OCD because it is filled with interesting anecdotes and compelling sadness along with hopeful events.
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Carabosse's Library | 16 Feb 2012
I definitely recommend this book to anyone who has suffered from any type of psychological trouble and has met with an uncaring world.
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MacMillian Library Marketing | 26 Apr 2012
As brutally intimate and honest as TRIGGERED is—an "acid bath of self-revelation," one blurber calls it—what charmed me about this memoir was its quirky balance of the heartbreaking and the hysterical, the profound and the light-hearted.
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Genre Go Round Reviews | 20 Mar 2012
This is an intriguing memoir that I can relate to having OCD and a family member diagnosed in his twenties with Asperger Syndrome.
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Zimlicious | 28 Feb 2012
This made Triggered fun to read, believe it or not. Yet he doesn't just make you laugh as he shares his struggles with the disease; he also makes the reader learn and think.
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The Best Memoirs Books
Fletcher Wortmann’s fine first book is brave, of course. Exposing himself in the service of describing his obsessional disorder is a significant, deliberate, personal sacrifice
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Tethered Mommy | 24 Mar 2012
I also felt that this memoir helped me understand a bit more about obsessive compulsive disorder.
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