Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions, and Life Lessons

A collection of personal stories, lessons, lyrics and photos by the British vlogger popularly known as doddleoddle shares insights into her anxieties and the ways that hardship helped her to become a better person. Original. 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.