Jacqueline Gellens Watson

JACQUELINE (Jackie) Gellens Watson grew up in a small town of 6,000 people in Southwest Missouri and firmly believes in small towns for children.

She has lived with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) since she was a young girl in the Great Depression. Her story chronicles her struggles before psychiatry became an accepted specialty and recounts her incessant battle with herself and a brain she believed was broken.

With scant help in managing and treating her condition available, Jackie came up with an unorthodox method for coping she calls "The Five."