Puzzled
A Memoir About Growing Up With OCD
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · April 16, 2024
Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with that condition in a graphic-novel memoir that is as funny as it is powerfully candid and openhearted.
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- Who it’s for
- A graphic-novel memoir pairs candid humor with the difficult work of understanding OCD.
- Themes
- Living with OCD, Anxiety and compulsive rituals, Empathy and self-understanding
- Genres
- Comics Biographies, Children's Mental Health, Depression & Mental Health
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Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with that condition in a graphic-novel memoir that is as funny as it is powerfully candid and openhearted. 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?
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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.
Honest, Unknotted
A graphic-novel memoir pairs candid humor with the difficult work of understanding OCD.
Come here for
- An openhearted account of growing up with fears and rituals
- Humor that sits alongside anxiety without brushing it aside
Expect
- A personal story about living with and learning about OCD
- A gentle case for empathy toward yourself and others
Where it sits
| Children's Mental Health | 79% |
|---|---|
| Comics Biographies | 70% |
| Depression & Mental Health | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Depression & Mental Health
- Comics Biographies
- Comics & Society
- Authors
- Pan Cooke
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- April 16, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Living with OCD · Anxiety and compulsive rituals · Empathy and self-understanding
- Reading lane
- Depression & Mental Health