Fairy Tale is a parable for Mental Illness.

Regine Dubono is available for interview/ book discussion on the topic of Sanity.

In “Sleeping Beauty” the protagonist fights mental illness by obsessively pursuing her career as curator. Her accomplishments are stupendous. In “Desiree”, Yael describes what goes on in the mind of an adolescent diagnosed with mental illness.

These books are precious documentaries on the substance of the female mind.

Dubono writes:  “Last week Desiree had been rationalizing about things really reasoning logically.  This week, miracle of miracles something happened to her shoulders.  They used to be slouching, but yesterday she swung her arms normally. The tenseness and rigidity in her shoulders and arms has subsided, she is more relaxed. The lock has been opened.  The spell…the spell that had sent Sleeping Beauty into sleep for the next hundred years had been dispelled, even though there was no prince charming in sight.  Sleeping beauty… She had gone mad!  A curse from a nasty witch… The calamity of jealousy…She was put to sleep by the prick of a needle… then rescued by the prince charming: Oh, the power of love!

“I never associated the fairy tale with an allegory for becoming insane.”  Insanity develops so suddenly it seems.  A person may be born blind, or retarded, but not mad.  Madness takes time to develop.  As if it required special circumstances, special ground for its seed to grow.  Could excess talent and aspirations lead to madness when constantly frustrated and held within, and building anger in a person’s character.. Unjustified angst, and anger.  The curse of the original sin inherited by every new born baby.  Anger that must be tamed, assuaged, soothed by the parents at an early age, and on a non verbal level.

Dubono continues: “and how it affected a whole kingdom: everyone became frozen in action, to be resuscitated only through the good fairy’s Counter spell.”  Read these books to form your own opinion.  Send your feedback to mailto:cdubonoregine@yahoo.com. 

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