Summary Of Nowhere Near Normal By Traci Foust

A factual, objective summary of the book: Traci Foust’s book, Nowhere Near Normal, discuses how her life was affected by mental health disorders as she was growing up. The main issue that Foust struggled with was obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which stemmed off of anxiety and possibly caused depression. She started developing the signs of OCD around the age of eight. The main problems she encountered with the disorder focused on odd and even numbers, the transfer of microbes and diseases, and worrying about harming others. Foust’s dislike of odd numbers leads to very poor performances in math classes, but she was able to excel in English, reading, writing, and theater, where she was able to find a creative outlet. The fear of the spread

It was a stressful situation for Foust’s parents, grandmother, sister, and brother to deal with. The stress of the situation may have lead to her parents’ divorce and her father leaving. There were many fights within the family because no one really understood why Foust was the way she was and they just did not know how to handle all of the issues associated with the disorder. Foust’s mother ended up making her see a couple therapists. The first one just created a place for her to talk, but the second one finally said that OCD was the primary cause of the problems. Foust was finally able to find out that she was not alone in her thoughts and that other people experienced these things as well. Cognitive therapy was the treatment plan that was really focused on. As she got older, the issues seemed to escalade, leading to a short stint as a runaway, an addiction to Nyquil to help with insomnia and numbing her thoughts, and the start of prescription drugs. She had a rough time coping with the mental health disorders in her late teens, but she started to understand how her mind worked little by

People have not always had the same understanding of what a mental illness is and what it entails. Even today, people are still learning about different mental illnesses, including what causes them, effective treatment, how they can be prevented, and what they actually to the individuals mind or thought process. In the past, mental illness has been treated with little, to no compassion because of the misunderstandings and misinterpretations of what was actually happening. The mentally ill may have been tortured, locked up for life, or even killed. These problems were not viewed as a medical issue, because people believed that these ill people had full control over their actions and that they just chose to act as they did. As time has passed and knowledge has been gained, there have been advances in how mental illness is looked at and treated. Even though the stigma placed on mental illness has improved, there are still quite a few people and cultures that look down on the recognition and treatment of mental health