It’s not easy to explain depression to those that don’t understand. It’s twice as hard when the person who doesn’t understand is your own family.
But that’s exactly what one woman, Sabrina Benaim, an American poet has gone on to do. In front of a live audience, too.
Speaking in Oakland, on behalf of Button Poetry, Sabrina begins:
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.
On those days, I play dead until the bear leaves me alone.
She goes on to speak about the many… Read the full story