Depression & Other Magic Tricks

Sabrina Benaim

Jul 2020 · Button Poetry

About this ebook

2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up

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. Andrea Gibson, author of Lord of the Butterflies writes "I read this book on a day I couldn't get out of bed and it made me feel like I had a friend in the world...Simply put, this book disappears loneliness."

Ratings and reviews

totally related to every poem, word, feeling on every single page the author spoke her feelings of depression and the ways she coped with it and I felt she was speaking to me bc my life much like her poetry churn inside me as well. I have loved lost deal with depression and anxiety daily and I to can't let go of one love that still burns but I had to leave bc it was toxic and is part of my past but I still hold onto it even though I've come to feel love for another so different from the love that love from my past for a person who I wish I could just forget about bc he caused pain to my love for him that I hate him for doing bc he broke me into pieces but many years later I haven't let go of him. he's still in my thoughts my dreams and something like the way the air smells or a gesture of some kind that I did catches my attention and memories of this person vividly fill my head. there were a few poems of hers that made me think of my past love. I read her book 3 times today and it's not even noontime and now my day will be a good day.

This book was absolutely perfect. I could feel her emotions through every word. I could never thank her enough for the amazing poetry she puts out!!

Absolutely moving. She bares all. Gives everything she can to her words. You will smile and you will cry. amazing

About the author

Sabrina Benaim is a writer, performance & teaching artist, whose home base is Toronto. She was a member of the Canadian championship-winning 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam team, & in 2015, she represented Toronto at the Women Of The World Poetry Slam. Sabrina has written poems for ESPNW, The Government of Canada, & most recently, made her Canadian television debut with Sport Chek, writing & voicing the third installment of their #WhatItTakes Olympic Manifesto video series. Sabrina enjoys breaking down stigma, women who help women, & the Toronto Blue Jays. She will accept any invitation to dance.