Sabrina Benaim

Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language produce a work of endless wonder.

Depression & Other Magic Tricks

theresa

i make plans but i don't want to go.  i make plans because i know i should want to go,  i know at some point i would have wanted to go,  it's just not that much fun having fun when you don't want to have fun.

ARCHIVE.

my heart is a messy bedroom i always distract myself from cleaning.

anxiety holds me hostage inside of my house, inside of my head. 

anxiety is the cousin visiting from out of town 

depression felt obligated to bring to the party. 

only, i am a party i don't want to be at. 

i make plans because i know i should want to go, 

i know at some point i would have wanted to go, 

it's just not that much fun having fun when you don't want to have fun.

her fists are filled with the laughter of ghosts.

Lara owens 

mom, my depression is a shape shifter; one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear, the next, it's the bear. those days I play dead until the bear leaves me alone. i call the bad days the dark days.

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