Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can’t turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn’t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she’d be truly crazy to leave the protect… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Ableism, internalised ableism & ableist language
- Pure O OCD & intrusive thoughts (theme)
- Panic attacks, on-page
- Hallucinations & psychosis
- Depression (sc)
- Suicide by drug overdose recounted, off-page
- Hospital mentioned
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a friend, off-page
- Death of a mother from terminal cancer mentioned
- Prescription drug use mentioned
- Bullying
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