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The World is Full of Laughter - Dolly Sen - Paul
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"This is a remarkable memoir from the even more remarkable Dolly Sen, from the inside of what passes for a mental health system in the UK. This is how she starts:
“I’m self-hate surrounded by mirrors.
Not the many glass ones I have shattered, ensuring I have no good luck for the next thousand lifetimes. No, the mirror of the eyes that constantly watch me. Mirrors with names, smiles, souls and lies.
“You’ve got your Daddy’s eyes and your Daddy’s lies. Cut them out!” The voices tell me over and over again.
Can memories turn into psychosis? These are memories that touch me with the insistence of a branding iron. Writing this memoir, I have to make sure it doesn’t turn into a suicide note,” "
(Paul, review)