Depression Poetry

Performance poet Sabrina Benaim presents Depression & Other Magic Tricks, a collection of poems that explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living.

A little over a year of living with bipolar type one. I ended a year off of medications deeply in love and with a stay in jail for joy-riding and fleeing and eluding. My family suffered, my friends suffered, and I suffered. This is a journal starting after my stay in jail. I respond to the journal entries all the following year, surprised mostly by the degree of my mental illness. This is not a self-help audiobook, and I struggle most of the time, not really coming up with many good solutions to my issues. Nothing about the past couple years has been easy.

Poetry is just an artistic release to provide healing. This book does just that. There is a way out of depression, a way out of the dark pits of life, a way to stop having suicidal thoughts - there is a way. Listen to this audiobook and find out for yourself! Healing is available for all. Enjoy the beauty of nature captured in the narration that remind us how beautiful this world really is. Sometimes, we just need that daily reminder.