Your Voice in My Head: A MemoirA dazzling and devastating memoir — Girl Interrupted for the Juno generation. Talented, prolific and charming, Emma Forrest was settled in Manhattan at twenty-two and on contract to the Guardian when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity, past the warm waters of weird and into those cold, deep patches of the sea where people lose their lives. Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of cutting and bulimia, and drawn inexplicably to damaging and cruel relationships, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist — a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself, and who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life. Emma's loving and supportive family and friends circled around her in panic. Like Ophelia, Emma was on the brink of drowning. But she was also still working, still exploring, still writing. And then she fell in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family for whom he had fought to survive. Processing the premature doorstep, a failed suicide, she was adrift. And when her significant and all-consuming relationship also fell apart, she was forced to cling to the page for survival. Your Voice in My Head is spiked with wit, humour and unique perception. It not only explores the crashing weight of depression, mania and suffering, but also the beauty of love and the heartbreak of loss. It is also, fundamentally, about our relationship with ourselves. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 3 |
Section 3 | 17 |
Section 4 | 23 |
Section 5 | 32 |
Section 6 | 34 |
Section 7 | 38 |
Section 8 | 54 |
Section 24 | 122 |
Section 25 | 124 |
Section 26 | 126 |
Section 27 | 130 |
Section 28 | 133 |
Section 29 | 137 |
Section 30 | 138 |
Section 31 | 142 |
Section 9 | 58 |
Section 10 | 65 |
Section 11 | 73 |
Section 12 | 75 |
Section 13 | 80 |
Section 14 | 84 |
Section 15 | 88 |
Section 16 | 93 |
Section 17 | 96 |
Section 18 | 100 |
Section 19 | 104 |
Section 20 | 107 |
Section 21 | 112 |
Section 22 | 115 |
Section 23 | 119 |
Section 32 | 145 |
Section 33 | 150 |
Section 34 | 155 |
Section 35 | 160 |
Section 36 | 167 |
Section 37 | 172 |
Section 38 | 177 |
Section 39 | 181 |
Section 40 | 186 |
Section 41 | 195 |
Section 42 | 197 |
Section 43 | 201 |
Section 44 | 208 |
Section 45 | 211 |
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