Jacqueline Gellens Watson

The Habit Jacqueline Gellens Watson

JACQUELINE (Jackie) Gellens Watson grew up in a small town of 6,000 people in Southwest Missouri and firmly believes in small towns for children. She has lived with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) since she was a young girl in the Great Depression. Her story chronicles her struggles before psychiatry became an accepted specialty and recounts her incessant battle with herself and a brain she believed was broken. With scant help in managing and treating her condition available, Jackie came up with an unorthodox method for coping she calls "The Five."From The Great Depression To The New Millennium, One Woman's Journey With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.