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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Depression go hand in hand. They double team you and steal the happiness and serenity of your life. I have had these conditions all of my life, which spans almost 50 years now. I have been on over 25 separate medications in all types of combinations, I have been through modified-hospitalization at the Cornell Medical Center. I have been fully hospitalized at the Yale New Haven Psychiatric Ward. I experienced over twenty electric shock treatments at an Ivy League Medical Institution. I have done a full month of Trans Magnetic Stimulation with one of the developers of the treatment. I have done Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as just one of a myriad of other therapies I endured. I have been a patient of nine psychiatrists. I have participated in drug gene testing to determine which psychotic medicine would have a chance at helping me. It was determined that 95% of all psychotic drugs would not be processed by my body. Thus, I was labeled a “highly resistant OCD and Depression patient.” Now I am working with a superb psychiatrist who is manipulating the drugs that do help me to stabilize my conditions. And mainly I am using all the life management and strategic behavior techniques I have learned over all of these years to maker the most of my existence. 50 years of treatment, both medicinal and behavioral that I want to share with you. I have remembered what it is like to be happy. I have done a half-century internship with OCD and Depression and now know more about my conditions than a good number of doctors. I have been suicidal and spectacular in my time and everything in between. But when you are in the grips of these conditions, there is no light. There is only darkness. There are no rungs on your ladder with which to drag yourself out of your all encompassing grief. I no this well. And I know there are others out there that have lived in similar horror. My first book, “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well,” describes in vivid detail a portion of the hell people with acute OCD and morbid Depression endure. It also begins to offer strategies to find moments of clarity, moments of lightness in the war against the pitch black. A woman at one of my book signings ran up to me in the crowd and hugged me. I said, “I guess you liked my book?” She answered, “I bought your book first for me, and after I read it, for my three grown kids. After they read it, for the very first time they came to me and said that they never had any idea of the horror I’d been going through! For the first time in their lives they understood me. Thank you for finally providing the conduit for my kids and myself to connect.”While the first book mainly focuses on the endurance nessesary to deal with these conditions and the techniques and stategies to do so, the second book offers something more. I don’t soly concentrate on the battles of the war. I endevour to help you find the opportunities of happiness that are undoubtedly available to you if you know where to look. I dare to teach you to laugh again for maybe the first time in eternity. In fact, I begin all but one chapter in Remembering Hapiness with a joke if you can believe it. I consider myself a success story. I have gone from counting pills on my bed, pondering whether if I took them all I’d successfully kill myself, to writing books to help my comrades to smile, giggle, and even flat out laugh. I want you to be the next success story more than anything. I dare you to save yourself. Buy my book, it will make it all possible. You’ve been happy at some point in your life. Now you just have to remember how. May the north you find be true.My Very Best…Charles K. St. Cross

Author: St Cross, Charles K

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1793802548
Language: English
Pages: 130