Suite TOC. Life, Art and Obsession

An exploration of OCD through reality and fiction, with the most heartbreaking style of Bel Olid.
 
Clara Peya was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) when she was twenty-one years old. Both she and her sister Ariadna, however, knew that mental suffering overwhelms any diagnosis. For this reason, with her company Les Impuxibles, they created Suite TOC núm 6, one of the most exciting and transgressive shows on the recent theater scene. A work that explores the stigma and the difficulty of not getting sick in a sick society.
 
Building on the strength of the work of Les Impuxibles and based on dozens of testimonies from people with OCD, Bel Olid takes another step in the fight against the taboo of mental illnesses, the impact of diagnoses and their effects on life of people and the whole of society. Critical, incisive and courageous, Suite TOC is a hybrid work of reality and fiction that breaks down borders and widens views.
 
Combining fragments of theater, interviews and unpublished short stories, this book tells us about art and madness, normality and exceptionality, about happiness, shame and compassion, and, above all, about the love of life.

With the text of Suite TOC núm 6, written by María Velasco and translated by Judith Pujol, and some reflections by Clara Peya and Ariadna Peya.