The poet behind the cult Twitter persona is bringing out a no-holds-barred book on depression, anxiety, addiction... but she still doesn’t want her parents to read it
Raised in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and now based in Los Angeles, poet and writer Melissa Broder has suffered from depression and anxiety all her life, starting with obsessive thoughts about dying from the age of 12. After a particularly harrowing series of panic attacks in 2012 while working as a publicity manager for Penguin USA, she started tweeting short, funny insights into her condition from the anonymous account @sosadtoday (“it’s not my fault i was born: the musical”, “ruin something for someone you love today”). The account quickly attracted hundreds of thousands of followers, including celebrity fans such as Sky Ferreira, Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry. In May 2015 Broder went public as the author of the tweets in an interview with Rolling Stone. Her book, So Sad Today, including essays on her former addiction to drugs and alcohol, her eating disorders, unrequited love affairs, and her relationship with therapy and antidepressants, is published in the UK next week.
When I’m having panic attacks and I feel I’m never going to come out of this cycle, writing is a way to make meaning
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