How to Defeat Bully Brain: OCD Detectives, by Ella Kim (Gatekeeper Press, 2024, 76pp, ages 8-12, $10.99PB) Review by Skye Anderson
Hot on the heels of Volume 1, A Story about OCD* and starring a boy, comes Volume 2, OCD Detectives starring a girl, written by highschool student Ella Kim.
What is OCD?
OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is a condition whose definition (with examples) appears on page 66 at the end of the book.
Now that the reader has read volume 1and knows a bit about OCD we know that Bully Brain is a voice in your head (often secret) telling you to do things that may interfere with your best life. What can one do about a Bully Brain?
Along comes Scarlett, a detective who founded Defeating Bully Brain Organization. Her job is to find OCD candidates, teach them a technique to overcome their type of OCD and send them on their way to find others to teach but some students are harder than others and take longer - we are all different.
First, we have Alice with Dirty Dan, then Noah and finally Jackson with Goody Gil. Using Detective Scarlett's method, they all learn to overcome their Bully Brain and graduate to becoming 'teachers' themselves, with more difficult cases.
The Method
Scarlett teaches the Step by Step Method which can be followed in many situations life throws at us.
A Scrapbook
Defeat looks like a scrapbook with simple colorful illustrations on each page. A fun and helpful book to refer to often.
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