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""This book undid me in all the best ways. Everything is an Emergency is a brilliant, honest, necessary book that exposes the intricacies of the human brain while showing us the way creativity and friendship can anchor us. This is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered if they see the world a little differently."" -Ada Limón A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD Jason Adam Katzenstein is just trying to live his life, but he keeps getting sidetracked by his over-active, anxious brain. Mundane events like shaking hands or sharing a drink snowball into absolute catastrophes. Jason has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a mental illness that compels him to perform rituals in order to protect himself from dangers that don't really exist. He checks, washes, over-thinks, rinse, repeat. He does his best to hide his embarrassing compulsions, and sometimes this even works. He grows up, worries about his first kiss, falls in love with making cartoons, moves to New York City -- which is magical and gross, etc. All the while, half his energy goes into living his life, while the other half is devoted to the increasingly ridiculous rituals he's decided to maintain to keep himself from fully short-circuiting, Then, he fully short-circuits. At his absolute lowest, Jason finally decides to do the things he's always been told to do to get better: exposure therapy and medication. These are the things that have always freaked him out, and they continue to freak him out. Also, they help him recover. Everything is an Emergency is about all the self-destructive stories someone tells himself, over and over, until they start to seem true. In images surreal, witty, and confessional, Jason shows us that OCD can be funny, even when it feels like it's ruining your life.

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""Everything Is An Emergency broke my heart and then put it back together!"" -- ""Shelby Lorman, author of Awards for Good Boys"" ""In this candid examination of life with obsessive-compulsive disorder...Katzenstein succinctly conveys what it feels like to be trapped in a mental loop dominated by panic, guilt, and fears...[until] he has to accept the professional help he's long resisted, and face his anxieties head-on...This refreshing and accessible debut, with crossover potential for older teens, will be a welcome addition to the growing canon of graphic medicine."" -- ""Publisher Weekly (starred review)""

In this candid examination of life with obsessive-compulsive disorder...Katzenstein succinctly conveys what it feels like to be trapped in a mental loop dominated by panic, guilt, and fears...[until] he has to accept the professional help he's long resisted, and face his anxieties head-on...This refreshing and accessible debut, with crossover potential for older teens, will be a welcome addition to the growing canon of graphic medicine. -- Publisher Weekly (starred review) Everything Is An Emergency broke my heart and then put it back together! -- Shelby Lorman, author of Awards for Good Boys

"""Everything Is An Emergency broke my heart and then put it back together!"" -- ""Shelby Lorman, author of Awards for Good Boys"" ""In this candid examination of life with obsessive-compulsive disorder...Katzenstein succinctly conveys what it feels like to be trapped in a mental loop dominated by panic, guilt, and fears...[until] he has to accept the professional help he's long resisted, and face his anxieties head-on...This refreshing and accessible debut, with crossover potential for older teens, will be a welcome addition to the growing canon of graphic medicine."" -- ""Publisher Weekly (starred review)"""

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Jason Adam Katzenstein is a cartoonist and writer for print and television. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times and MAD Magazine, and on Cartoon Network. He is the illustrator of The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon and the graphic novel Camp Midnight. He is also a visiting professor at Wesleyan University. Michael Crouch is an actor based in New York City. His audiobook narration has won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, and Best of the Year accolades from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, video games, and the animé series Pokémon XY and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.

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