It was inspiring for me to read how he had largely mended himself without medication. It unravels you, and everything you have ever known.” Indeed his list of symptoms are frightening and show this debilitating illness in all its infinite darkness. Haig has written this book to lessen the stigma that still exists around depression (unlike any physical illness) and to try to convince people “that the bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view.” He perfectly describes depression as “like walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.” “Depression,” he says “reveals what is normally hidden. It came at a really vital time in my life. I bought it and began to read it immediately. So it was with great fortune that I looked up Matt Haig on Twitter recently to see if he was writing a follow up to his excellent novel The Humans, only to discover he had just published Reasons To Stay Alive. This year I have been experiencing particularly bad episodes of it. I have suffered from depression on and off for most of my adult life. This book is true and the advice he proffers on how to live better, love better and feel more alive is honest, helpful and real. Mercifully, there are no trite inspirational quotes or meaningless platitudes here. In this part-memoir, part self-help book, he shares with us the reasons he found to not just stay alive but really learn to live again. Reasons To Stay Alive is the story of how he came through the depression that got him to that point and overcame an illness that almost destroyed him. It might just save your life.Īged 24, Matt Haig found himself stood on the edge of a cliff about to jump.
If you have depression, anxieties or other mental illnesses, I cannot recommend this book highly enough to you.
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