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Title: A humorous look at a serious disease.
Review: Coles, in her book "Just Checking," chooses to make light of a very serious illness--obsessive compulsive disorder. The strange thing is that it works. By wisecracking about the rather odd things she did over the years, and the way that her husband enabled her by going along with her strange behavior, she places the reader inside her head. While entertaining us, Coles also shows us how logical this behavior seemed to her at the time. I was both horrified and amused, as contradictory as this seems. Coles has done a wonderful job of showing us how OCD takes over the lives of its unfortunate victims until they go for the help that they need. Fortunately, the author went for help, but unfortunately, she paid a steep price for waiting so long. This book is touching, informative and entertaining. Coles is a talented and brutally honest writer. She is to be commended for telling it like it is; it must have been difficult for her to bare her soul like this.
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