Download or read book Crippled by Fear written by Bita Karamzadeh and published by Epigraph Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crippled By Fear: My Struggle to Overcome a Life of Disorders, by Bita Karamzadeh, chronicles her childhood and adolescence with severe anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and an eating disorder that almost took her life. At once heartfelt and humorous, Bita's debut memoir brings a tender humanness to these clinical disorders while also portraying the frustrating ambiguity of mental illness, which is not always so easily contained within a single diagnosis or linear narrative of illness and recovery. Readers follow her as she stumbles toward adulthood, from a tense and lonely childhood in Houston, to a destructive adolescence in and out of eating disorder treatment centers, and, finally, to a fragile yet hopeful recovery as a young woman in Southern California.