Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“One of the best [books] I have read on the phenomenology of OCD.” —Scott Stossel, the Washington Post

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.

By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a though...