compulsive behavior

Describes many different types of addictions, their effects, and treatments.

Offers teens an overview of the symptoms and potential dangers associated with online game addiction, discussing ways to regain and maintain control of gaming habits, and related topics.

Discusses the nature of addictions to gambling, food, sex, alcohol, and other drugs, how they form and develop, their negative effects, and how to deal with them.

Discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder, its causes and diagnosis, recent findings, and the differences between OCD and other addictions and obsessions.

Introduces obsessive-compulsive disorder, examines the causes and problems associated with the disorder, and possible treatment options available.

In 1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam.

Personal narratives explore the dangers of addiction, with people describing the devastating impact their addictions had on their personal and professional lives and sharing how they overcame their addictions.

Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of addiction to nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and inhalants, as well as non-drug addictions to food, sex, and gambling, and looks at treatment options and recovery.

When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.

The author, a psychiatrist, shares stories from his practice of memorable patients suffering from a variety of compulsive conditions.