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And I had wanted to research some of the ideas about OCD that I’d been offered.

The first time that a psychiatrist-or maybe it was a therapist, I don’t know-suggested to me that maybe I was dealing with some OCD, I thought, “That cannot be right, I am nothing like David Sedaris.” Because David Sedaris was the only person I’d ever-he had these essays about his compulsions and his tics from his youth on This American Life, which I used to listen to with my mom in the car.Īnd I had been so confused, often, and felt kind of isolated in my experience of that particular mental illness because it didn’t seem adequately captured. Jordan Kisner: I started writing that essay because I wanted to kind of interrogate an experience that I had lived with from very young, maybe the age of 12 or 13, the experience of having obsessive compulsive disorder, but in a way that I did not see reflected in the conversations or media where OCD was mentioned. To celebrate the paperback release of Thin Places, this special episode features Jordan in the interview seat in a conversation with returning guest Lydia Millet. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection, Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio. This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write.