So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love, low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores—in prose that is both gutsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic—questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.
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0There were some great quotes, especially in the love story chapter. But I originally picked this up hoping for something relatable about living with anxiety and depression… and this was not that. If nothing else, it did open my eyes to just how wildly different people’s experiences and coping mechanisms can be.
That said, not to yuck anyone’s yum, but I may need therapy after the chapter on the author's vomit fetish. Truly, I was not prepared. Also, the fatphobia sprinkled throughout? Not a fan.
It’s undeniably honest, and I respect that, but some things are allowed—maybe even meant—to stay private.
I have no idea how to rate this. Giving a low rating feels weird for something so raw and unfiltered, but I also can’t say I enjoyed it. So, straight down the middle it is: 2.5 stars.
0“The experience of being alive, its isness, maybe in relation to the future isn’tness of death or maybe independent of that, or maybe a hybrid of both, can hurt so much sometimes. Sometimes it still hurts so much to be alive that I want to die. I am scared of dying and sad about dying and that is part of the hurt.”
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