When Life was Yellow by Paulette Hampton

Take a raw, authentic look at life with obsessive-compulsive disorder through the eyes of a sufferer. From drawing invisible boxes around my parents to protect them from contamination, invoking the all-power number 5 to rescue me from eternal damnation to performing counting, checking, and touching rituals to function throughout the day, When Life was Yellow invites the reader to discover the "monster behind my eyes."