Description Dr Harry Crow, about whose work you will read in this honest and compelling story, often used to refer to people with severe obessive compulsive disorder (OCD) as being 'hag-ridden' by their disease. This term gives the reader some inkling of the sort of battle which Charlotte Harris has had to fight in order to emerge, so successfully, from her illness. The bravery which people who have OCD need, in order to face the world and continue to be in it, is demonstrated amply in these pages. Charlotte underwent a form of treatment, multi focal leukocoagulation, which is no longer performed. All forms of what were then called 'psychosurgery' have become almost entirely unfashionable and are sometimes seen as some form of torture carried out on people who simply have 'mental health issues'. This is so far from the truth as to be laughable and Charlotte's account is an important testimony to the error of that view. Her illness was terrible and disabling and called for...

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