


Over the following weeks, her brain listed more dangers and fixes. “It started with avoiding sidewalk cracks and quickly grew to counting steps as loudly as possible. Allison believed that she must do something to stop the cancer in her dream from becoming a reality. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home, but after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning.

“Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. 19, describes it this way on their website: Simon and Schuster, which will publish the book on Sept. Allison Fairall Britz (BA ’11, MAM ’12) has written her first book, a young-adult memoir titled “ Obsessed,” relating her teenage experience with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
