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Copyright © 2014 by David Adam
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Originally published in 2014 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adam, David, 1972–
The man who couldn’t stop: OCD and the true story of a life lost in thought / David Adam.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-374-22395-3 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71051-4 (ebook)
1. Obsessive-compulsive disorder—Anecdotes. I. Title.
RC533 .A273 2014
616.85'227—dc23
2014017387