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Secrets for the mad : obsessions, confessions, and life lessons
- Title
- Secrets for the mad : obsessions, confessions, and life lessons / Dodie.
- Author
- Dodie (Musician)
- Publication
- New York : Keywords Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 248 pages : illustrations; 19 cm
- Summary
- "A collection of personal stories, lessons, song lyrics, and photos from the beloved British vlogger Dodie Clark, also known online as doddleoddle. When I feel like I'm going mad I write. A lot of my worst fears have come true; fears that felt so big I could barely hold them in my head. I was convinced that when they'd happen, the world would end. But the world didn't end. In fact, it pushed on and demanded to keep spinning through all sorts of mayhem, and I got through it. And because I persisted, I learned lessons about how to be a stronger, kinder, better human--lessons you can only learn by going through these sorts of things. This is for the people with minds that just don't stop; for those who feel everything seemingly a thousand times more than the people around them. Here are some words I wrote"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Contents
- Curtain call -- Luna -- My bad brain -- Fireworks -- Seven-year-old Dodie's hopes for the future -- The theme park's stopped working -- "Hello there, yes, I'm calling about my worsening mental state?" -- Lunchtime or 4 a.m. -- Travelling and depersonalisation -- Managing and managing -- Watery milk (suicidal) -- Half good, half bad -- Obsessions -- Scroll. Drink. Shrink. -- Forkfuls of salad -- Overdrinking -- An experiment -- Paint -- Skin -- Champagne and cornflakes -- Confessions -- What's it like -- Crush -- Awkward -- Ben's view of my concert -- Men I have loved -- My manipulative, unhealthy relationship -- I didn't like sex -- How to have sex -- Heartbreak -- Tips -- Processing -- Dumped in Disneyland -- Life lessons -- Bisexuality -- coming out to myself -- Fame -- Cooking. Breakfasts ; Lunches ; Dinners -- Dear Hedy -- A broken family -- Homemade family -- Best friend love -- Bullying -- Pain -- Becoming woman -- Grief -- Feeling so much -- My granny -- Encore -- Hopes for the future.
- Call Number
- JFC 18-201
- ISBN
- 9781501180101
- 150118010X
- LCCN
- 2017035858
- OCLC
- 1003489335
- Author
- Dodie (Musician), author.
- Title
- Secrets for the mad : obsessions, confessions, and life lessons / Dodie.
- Publisher
- New York : Keywords Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First Keywords Press/Atria paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Clark, Dodie. Secrets for the mad. New York : Atria/Keywords Press, 2017 9781501180118 (DLC) 2017043514
- Research Call Number
- JFC 18-201