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The Nervosa: Obsessive Compulsive Dystopia
THE NERVOSA is a dystopian sci-fi novel that deals with obsessive compulsive disorder and wider issues of mental health.In a future society in which all citizens are assigned a vocation based on the results of NCD; a secretive procedure that determines and defines mental health, a young man is diagnosed an OC, an Organised Citizen, and is put to work as part of a strictly controlled labour force. While he struggles with his intrusive mental health issues, and attempts to understand this community that he has found himself a part of, a young girl who refuses to be defined so easily enters his life, and a journey of mutual discovery begins.THE NERVOSA is a brutally honest and revealing depiction of obsessive-compulsive disorder told within a gripping, darkly comic, disturbing, and moving story about the dangers of forced conformity and the misunderstood minds that suffer within.About the Meadows graduated from De Monfort University with a BA in Film and Media Studies and an MA in Television Scriptwriting. He has been a finalist for the Red Planet Prize for scriptwriting. THE NERVOSA is his first tyronemeadowswriter@ @tymeadowswriter
232 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 23, 2021
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January 24, 2023
EDIT:
Initially I gave this book 3.5 stars, but it’s been on my mind, and I just can’t over the absolute dark, I genius dystopian themes of this book….
So, I’m gonna upgrade it to 3.75 rounded up to 4⭐️
This gave me 1984 vibes meets mental health diagnosis’s for gain.
An interesting take on mental health in a dystopian future where our ‘weaknesses’ are not weaknesses but instead used by an omniscient system that directs work based on these ‘quirks’.
It’s weird, wacky, dark, strange, and frankly terrifying.
Disturbing, yet scarily real and imaginative, this book pierces the darker side of mental health, society, and control.
Initially I gave this book 3.5 stars, but it’s been on my mind, and I just can’t over the absolute dark, I genius dystopian themes of this book….
So, I’m gonna upgrade it to 3.75 rounded up to 4⭐️
This gave me 1984 vibes meets mental health diagnosis’s for gain.
An interesting take on mental health in a dystopian future where our ‘weaknesses’ are not weaknesses but instead used by an omniscient system that directs work based on these ‘quirks’.
"Congratulations, Organised Citizen, what you believed to be your greatest flaw is in fact your greatest strength."
It’s weird, wacky, dark, strange, and frankly terrifying.
My eyes were caked in yellow grime. I rubbed at them for a cough of minutes, picking away at the cracked and rotten remains of vanished dreams.
Disturbing, yet scarily real and imaginative, this book pierces the darker side of mental health, society, and control.
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