OCD Interrupted: A Girl You Haven't Seen Before

By Ilianthe Kalloniatis

Ilianthe’s upbringing was eccentric, her life journey never followed a straight line. Follow Ilianthe from her hippy childhood to her life as a struggling film maker, on film sets such as the Australian cult classic ‘Bad Boy Bubby’, to cut price television commercials. Follow her from Adelaide to Tasmania, from therapist to therapist, obsession to obsession and back again. Just when Ilianthe was beginning to accept her OCD she was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and the roller coaster ride began again.

“This is a story of strange connections, the disconnect between people, and a peculiar gap between one person and the understood planet. Recognised by none, supported by few and accepted by no-one for years, Ilianthe lived out her OCD from pre-teen to a variety of high schools and onto tertiary study and work using a number of coping mechanisms. At all times she never lost sight of her inner self, entrusting it to her craft, her film-making and her writing. What has emerged from the latter shows the sheer talent which was bound up in this troubled person - at its core, a unique individual....... In OCD INTERRUPTED you’ll find a girl you haven’t seen before, a girl kept from you by her own coping devices and the quiet desperation of a moment-by-moment life. In this memoir, outlined here brilliantly, with honesty and humour, Ilianthe creates her world for you in a manner both entertaining and enlightening. In doing so she introduces you to details of an existence which are heart-wrenching at times and heart-warming always, details you vaguely know but the core of which you hope never to experience............ Teacher, parent, or purely someone with compassion and a wish to broaden your understanding of us all, read this little book. Take a new look at those three letters, grasp how all-pervasive this misunderstood condition is, how early it can first infest the creative psyche and be left wondering how many others struggle in silence with this crippling mind-state."
Rob de Kok - Author and lecturer in literature and writing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483526416