7/8/2023 0 Comments Your voice in my head bookSoon after this event, she met the therapist who ultimately changed her life, a man she refers to as Dr. “I couldn’t work fast enough to harm myself, so the boyfriend was helping out,” she writes of a sexual injury that landed her in the emergency room. Although she had the support of her parents - whom she portrays as not merely functional but downright adorable - as well as a precocious career in journalism and a first novel, “Namedropper,” already on the way, she became a bulimic and an obsessive cutter, and soon began walking “hand in hand with the thought of suicide.” She also had a knack for acquiring terrible boyfriends whose bad behavior inspired her to hurt herself more, and who sometimes aided and abetted the abuse. that I saw in her my own destiny.”Ī decade ago, when she was in her 20s, Forrest (now a screenwriter in Los Angeles) moved to Manhattan. “I believe that she infected me,” she writes. Indeed, on her book’s first page Forrest invokes the patron saint of mentally ill beauties with bad taste in men, as she describes how, at 13, she began making regular pilgrimages after school to the Tate in London, to visit Millais’s portrait of the drowned Ophelia. Emma Forrest’s memoir, “Your Voice in My Head,” is part of a literary tradition that began long before Susanna Kaysen’s girlhood was interrupted or Elizabeth Wurtzel got her first Prozac prescription.
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