A girl tries to explain her depression to her mother
Everyone is sometimes frustrated. Or sad. Or unmotivated. But when a person suffers from depression, the feelings go beyond that. What outsiders rarely understand is that depression is as much a disease as a broken arm. Only the latter is probably even easier to heal.
Only slowly is the acceptance of mental illness growing and seeing it as such. In society, people suffering from depression still encounter incomprehension. Can not you pull yourself together? No. Because depression is much more than a bad mood.
Outsiders can rarely feel what is going on in a person affected. That's what Sabrina Benaim wants to change. Because Sabrina knows how to feel. She herself suffers from depression. And she suffers from the incomprehension of her fellow human beings. In a poetry slam, she dares to try to explain to society how depression really feels.
The presentation is as vivid as it is personal that it gets under your skin. This is a snippet of "Explaining My Depression to My Mother, " which everyone should have seen to bring a little more light into the darkness of depression:
"Mom, I'm not afraid of the dark. Maybe that's part of the problem . Mama says , 'I thought your problem was that you did not get out of bed.' I can not. Fear keeps me hostage in my own house, my own head. Mama says , 'Where does the fear come from?' Fear is the cousin who comes to visit from another city, the depression means to bring to the party. Mom, I'm the party. A party I do not want to be on . "
More about depression can be found here.
Those who suffer from depression often encounter incomprehension. A girl tries to explain in a poetry slam how depression really feels.
