Humor columnist Maggie Lamond Simone's painful journey provides insight
for the thousands of others who similarly cut, starve, pick, drink,
pluck, purge, and otherwise hurt themselves in private in order to
survive in public. She explores the issues of substance abuse, anxiety,
and depression that commonly occur with OCD, all in an effort to further
the dialog around mental illness and eliminate the shame, because the
shame . . . the shame is a killer.
Maggie Lamond Simone is an award-winning columnist and author. Her
first column anthology, From Beer to Maternity, was released in
November 2009. She has a black belt in Kenpo karate and a master's
degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse
University.