Comedian, blogger and writer Sara Benincasa (who grew up in Flemington) also suffered from panic attacks, anxiety and agoraphobia from the time she was in high school. While in Boston at Emerson College, she sinks to the depths of depression and her illness, afraid of everything from riding in a car to using the bathroom. Her parents brought her back to New Jersey where she began the slow process of learning to live with and manage her illnesses. Along the way she spends time in an Ashville (NC) rehab center, time at a spiritual healing house outside of New Hope, PA, teaches in a Texas school for the arts, and learns not to take things so seriously and that it is okay to laugh at yourself. Bold, brash, at times completely uncensored but always honest, Sara learns she is not alone in her feelings or in her fight to survive and will remind us that we are not alone. Living in Manhattan, Sara is offered a chance to try being a stand-up comedian and finds comedy a good outlet for her anxieties and fears and a useful tool in dealing with them. Sara’s journey from agoraphobic to fabulous isdisturbing, funny and familiar, all at once.
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