Dolly Sen's Blog

Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She has 8 published books since 2002; has taken on performance roles at The Young Vic, the Royal Festival Hall, and around Europe; undertaken a poetry tour; won a poetry award from Poet Laureate Andrew Motion; directed two plays and several TV films; and performed spoken word at City Hall and Oxford University.

Photograph of a sign saying 'PAY HERE' in the middle of an empty desert
1 January 2008

PSYCHOTIC FUNFAIR

So what's it like having a psychotic experience, I have been asked many a-time. Well, the painful part of Schizophrenia is that you are on a never-ending ghost train ride, but you see monsters and...

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Image of the book cover for The World is Full of Laughter
1 January 2008

FREE BOOKS

Thanks to a grant I was given, I am able to give away my first memoir 'THE WORLD IS FULL OF LAUGHTER' to anyone who wants it. Basically it is a book that started out as a possible suicide note and...

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Photograph of an elderly woman sitting on a box holding up a sign saying: 'Please give today. Madness is for life, not just for Christmas'
1 January 2008

ADOPT A NUTTER

I keep getting into trouble, by writing things like this: Being mad means being poor. Being mad means being rejected by society and sometimes your family. It can be lonely. So why not adopt a...

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