i am neurotic.

i am neurotic (and so are you) is out in bookstores TODAY!  Or if you have a neurotic aversion to bookstores, you can order the book online.  Thanks to everyone for your continued readership and submissions!  The book never would have existed without you guys, and I hope you enjoy it.  Neurotics Unite!

Sincerely,
Lianna

I used to think that some day I’d end up murdering a close friend or relative. Now it’s reversed and I’m convinced it’s going to happen to me. That’s the way I’m going out, I’m completely sure of it. So I refuse to answer the front door – it greatly minimises that risk.

‘I’m convinced someone is going to murder me,’ reveals Pete Wentz, Daily Mail

(Thank you to the reader who submitted this.)

Wondering what the cover for i am neurotic (and so are you) will look like?  It’s coming together!

Also, HarperStudio noticed that Bernie Madoff is a pretty neurotic guy.

Act Three. When Days are Numbered.

Jerry Davidson has been keeping a list of everything he’s done since 1955, when he was ten years old. What makes it on the lists is very odd, and what isn’t included is most of his feelings. His nephew Adam investigates, hoping to understand him better through these lists. He doesn’t get very far.

88: Numbers @ This American Life

“The Reader’ actress and her director spouse Sam Mendes insist on traveling separately because they are terrified of being involved in an air crash which would leave their children – Mia, Kate’s eight-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, and five-year-old son Joe – without their parents. … The couple’s phobia is said to stem from different air incidents they were involved in.”

[ONTD]

“No one likes bad news, but for some people, no news is worse. People who are mildly neurotic are stressed by uncertainty even more than by bad news, a new study finds.”

Bad News Can Be Better Than Nothing @ NYT

Sadie Stein over at Jezebel points out that “Barack Obama, our dashing president-crush-elect, is apparently rife with food neuroses.”

“He regularly ate the same dinner of salmon, rice and broccoli. At Schoop’s Hamburgers, a diner in Portage, Ind., he munched a single french fry and ordered four hamburgers—to go. At the Copper Dome Restaurant, a pancake house in St. Paul, Minn., he ordered pancakes—to go. (An AP reporter wondered: who gets pancakes for the road?) A waiter reeled off a long list of richly topped flapjacks, but Obama went for the plain buttermilk, saying, ‘I’m kind of traditionalist.’ Reporters joked that if he ate a single bite of burger or pancake once the doors of his dark-tinted SUV closed, they’d eat their BlackBerrys.” (The Long Siege @ Newsweek)

Apparently they blog.

“Among female students only, those who scored highly on neuroticism (i.e. anxious, insecure characters) were more likely to blog. This is consistent with work on internet usage that also found an association with neurotic personality types, but only among women.”

(@ The British Psychological Society: Research Digest Blog)

Our favorite neurotic TV personality, Larry David, is becoming more neurotic because of the election.  Can you blame him?

“Five times a day I’ll still say to someone, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do if McCain wins.’”

Waiting for Nov. 4th (@ The Huffington Post)

The United States of Mind: Researchers Identify Regional Personality Traits Across America (WSJ)

“Based on more than 600,000 questionnaires and published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, the study maps regional clusters of personality traits, then overlays state-by-state data on crime, health and economic development in search of correlations.”