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by James Callner (Author)
If you are looking for empathy, compassion, kindness, hope, and practical tools for living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), this book will help inspire you on your journey to recovery. In 1982, author James Callner suffered a devastating mental breakdown and the onset of severe OCD. He was hospitalized for six weeks. He felt broken, lost, and terrified about what was happening to his life. He felt trapped with no way out. But there was a way out ... This hopeful and inspirational memoir is warm and casual and shares his recovery process. His care was multifaceted, including hospitalization, cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure response prevention therapy, and an array of innovative approaches. With compassion, empathy, humor, and wisdom, James chronicles his more than three decades of getting the right help while living with OCD. He found that OCD robbed him of trust and infused him with fears and phobias about people, places, and things and debilitating anxiety. He simply didn't trust life. He regained that trust by using helpful tools to reclaim his power-to trust himself again. In this book, he shares those tools to help with your recovery. This is a memoir and a self-help book for anyone who struggles with OCD. As James Callner often reminds people with OCD, "There is always hope." *The author requests that you write a short review if you purchase his book.
Author Biography
James Callner's onset of OCD came in his 20s. To this day, he continues his recovery with CBT/ERP, spiritual, medical, and holistic therapies and treatments, and has emerged as an educator and a public speaker specializing in OCD and anxiety. Mr. Callner started his college teaching and professional filmmaking career in his early 20s. He has earned over 30 national and international film festival awards as well as critical acclaim for writing and directing films about physically and emotionally challenged individuals. He was commissioned by the International OCD Foundation to make the first dramatic educational film about a child with OCD, "The Touching Tree." He went on to make "In the Shoes of Christopher," a dramatic film about OCD and bullying; "The Risk," a film about OCD and the family; and "Hope and Solutions for OCD," a four-part lecture series with OCD professionals. All films can be found on afocd.org, YouTube, OCD Treatment Centre (ocdtreatmentcentre.com), and Facebook. Mr. Callner currently provides inspiration and recovery techniques through his OCD Coaching Videos and Words of Hope, and his articles can be found on afocd.org, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media. He is cofounder and president of the Awareness Foundation for OCD. James Callner lives with his wife Jeanine by the ocean in northern California.
