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Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.
- Sales Rank: #7739221 in Books
- Published on: 2015-07-01
- Format: Audiobook
- Dimensions: 6.61" h x .63" w x 5.47" l, .32 pounds
- Binding: Audio CD
- 4 pages
Review
Maybe the most important book I've read this year -- SIMON MAYO A life-saving book -- AMANDA CRAIG Warm and engaging, and shot through with humour ... a valuable contribution to the conversation * SUNDAY TIMES * Brings a difficult and sensitive subject out of the darkness and into the light -- MICHAEL PALIN Full of wisdoms and warmth -- NATHAN FILER A tender, candid, inspiring book about depression * SUNDAY EXPRESS * Matt Haig is astounding -- STEPHEN FRY Reasons to Stay Alive is wonderful. I read it in one sitting. Touching, funny, thought-provoking, with a huge heart. It should be read by anyone who has suffered, or known someone who has suffered (i.e. everyone) -- S J WATSON Fascinating and beautifully written -- IAN RANKIN Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin -- JEANETTE WINTERSON Matt Haig is a marvellous writer: limpid; tender; passionate. In this memoir (and it's short, barely 200 pages long), he manages to articulate, both the bleakness of depression and the means of dealing with it, little by little, day by day, without ever sounding maudlin, or self-indulgent, or preachy. For everyone who has ever felt the snap of the black dog's teeth, this book is wise, funny, affirming and redemptive. Sometimes depression can be like falling into a wordless pit. Matt Haig finds the words. And he says them for all of us -- JOANNE HARRIS Thoughtful, honest and incredibly insightful -- JENNY COLGAN Brilliant and salutary ... should be on prescription -- REV. RICHARD COLES For anyone who has faced the black dog, or felt despair, this marvellous book is a real comfort, dealing sympathetically with depression, written with candour and from first-hand experience. I think it is a small masterpiece. It might even save lives -- JOANNA LUMLEY A really great read, and essential to our collective well-being -- JO BRAND Quite simply brilliant * BOOKMUNCH * A heart-breaking account of a young man experiencing debilitating depression but comes with a surprising light touch * SUNDAY MAIL * I feel like someone else in the world understands me now. I feel a bit less alone, a bit less scared, a bit less guilty and anxious and burdened * LITTLE WHITE LIBRARY * The amount of passages I've underlined is a real testament to his skills as a writer * THE WHITE JOURNAL * A life-affirming and quietly joyful read * CONNAUGHT TELEGRAPH *
About the Author
Matt Haig is the bestselling author of five novels, including The Humans, The Radleys and The Last Family in England. He has also written award-winning children's books. His work has been translated into 30 languages. He grew up in Nottinghamshire and now lives in Brighton.
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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
From the viewpoint of a 'depressive'
By Straightforward
I enjoyed reading Matt's book on his experience of going through depression; it's part autobiography, part self-help manual - there is very much a sense of the author putting things back in place, mapping out the topography of his own mind and discovering a place where he can comfortably be himself. By putting it all down on paper, he is exorcising the demons in the darkness by exposing them to the light of public examination.
As someone who has also been through the experience of depression for many years and has also arrived at incredibly similar conclusions after coming out the other side, I recognise completely the numb, bleak, monochromatic existence that he describes; the endless days ahead, the wasted days behind. The inability to realise that you have an impact on others, that you even matter. That anything matters.
But it was this that made the 'depression years' in the book seem almost as turgid and endless as going through the experience again for real; by the 80th page, I really was feeling bleak; I started to recognise that familiar 'me me me' narrative that so bored me about myself when I was depressed and talking about it with friends, and reading the book itself almost became like a microcosm of battling with depression itself: were things really going to get better? Would I really start enjoying this book before it was too late? What was wrong with me for not feeling the same joyous giddiness that all the celebs on the covers evidenced in their soundbite quotes? Was I hateful for writing a less-than-glowing review of Matt's very personal and revealing book, risking hurting his feelings for my own subjective self-satisfaction?
Even though this opening part of the book was bleak and uncomfortable to read, I accepted it for what it was and struggled through, adopting the maxim that sometimes, just keeping going is a victory for positivity. There were times when I came close to ending it all and closing the book for good, but - without checking the exact page count - I think the sun finally started to come out after 100 pages. That was too much for me as a depressive to get much out of - it was a hard read; it seemed to be there to function as a 'window into the nightmare' for those who haven't experienced it. They might find it useful, but although cases of depression seem to have similar themes and motifs, they vary in context as much as the sufferers themselves are unique individuals.
After that, when the book deals with where his head's at now, it gets easier. But these are things I wanted more detail on - there are lots of lists, and very very short chapters all through this book, which make it easier to pick up and get into - but they also make the reading experience frustratingly insubstantial at times. Maybe there's something to this book leading the advance against the taboo of depression and suicide - if that's the case, then I hope it performs the function of getting it out into the public arena once and for all.
There were times, when reading, that I felt that pang of wonder and dread that comes when you know exactly what the next sentence is going to be - and there are times when that same sensation of knowing felt like something jaded and predictable; similarly, there were times when I felt the tone of the narrative to be a gentle one, speaking great truths, but it also felt at later times like I was a bed-bound patient being ministered by someone with the bedside manner of Alan Titchmarsh; oozing soothingness and calm to a poor ill person.
Life has brought me to the same conclusions as Matt, though; that's a sign we're both going the right way.
A very thought-provoking read that isn't the magical work of profundity that the publishers seem to want to market it as - that's far too much expectation to have for what is essentially a very humble enterprise; that of an author working through what happened to him in the most natural way possible for him - via his pen. It is a work of kindness, and of good intention; it is a work of reason, and a testament to the powers of the mind; but I feel that it's being hyped into something that the author never intended it to be.
This book is useful for those who wish to get an idea of what it feels like to go through depression. It would also be useful to someone in the middle of a depressive episode, I suppose. Personally I was both pleased and disappointed by this book - pleased that we had arrived at almost exactly the same perspective on life, but disappointed that I could therefore only confirm my existing beliefs rather than challenge them and learn something new.
Finally, my views on happiness, how to find it, and how to keep it (as Matt finishes in the same way himself):
1) All that exists is the moment of 'now'. Everything else - the past and the future - is in your head. Leave the past behind you; it has gone. By being positive in the present moment, you are sowing seeds of good possibilities for the future; there is no need to dwell modbidly on what is yet to happen.
2) Being kind to others, and having your actions affect others in a positive way will make all parties a lot happier.
3) Diversity of choice produces stress, not happiness. Keep it simple.
4) Don't let your mind tell you downers. When you catch yourself having miserable thoughts, take positive action be reinforcing the upbeat, truthful alternative - even if you don't feel like you are.
5) Your mind can be trained like a dog. A repeated action becomes a habit after three weeks or so. Acquire positive habits, drop the negative ones.
6) Don't judge. It's not as simple as 'succeed' or 'fail'. Just accept and be open to what is.
7) Exercise makes the body happy
8) EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT.
9) Your good mood deserves protection - it is fragile and valuable. Your good mood is stronger than the bad mood of others.
10) You can always do better tomorrow.
11) People feel happier if they have a purpose.
12) Everyone's life is different. Everyone comes to terms with their life in their own way.
Ultimately I'm a bit disappointed by this book, but I totally recognise the story; I liked it without getting as excited as everyone else seems to be doing.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Real.
By Liz Barnsley
A copy of this book was given to me by a good friend.
It is ironic (is that the right word I wonder?) that the author who gave me my first reason to stay alive, at a time when I struggled to find one – with his previous novel, The Humans – then went on to write openly, elegantly and with no holds barred, about his own experiences of depression and anxiety. And called it “Reasons to Stay Alive” If I was better with words myself I could probably find a better one than Ironic. But it will have to do.
I would normally at this point I guess, wax lyrical about how beautifully Mr Haig writes and how he gets me every time. Which is true of course, but not what this book needs. I’ve read a lot of non fiction about Depression and related issues during the time that I have been trying to understand my own mindset, my own experience, but what Matt has done is simply talk about it honestly. In the end, if you want to try and understand it, this is what you need – open, frank and truthful words that paint a picture and allow you in.
I shall be keeping a copy of it close by for sure, for the next 3am where I think perhaps dying would be better.
I’ve given it 5 stars obviously, but this is not a book to be rated. It is one to be read – by anyone who suffers, has suffered, lives with someone who suffers and ALL the people in between – one of the most important books you may ever read about the human condition.
Brave, sincere, genuine and inspirational. That is all.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Courageous and valuable book offering real insight into the nature of depression, its many challenges and its unexpected gifts
By A. I. McCulloch
This is such a valuable book.
In having the courage to tell his own story of recovery from the deepest depths of despair Matt Haig offers powerful insights into the nature of depression and anxiety. Since 2005 Matt has been an increasingly successful author; his first book was written whilst he was still in the very firm grip of the illness. His books are award winning (Shadow Forest) and are set to be filmed (The Radleys)
Matt's decision to tell his story came out of the reaction to his novel The Humans which tells of mental illness and the isolation of those who suffer.
Depression dropped on Matt out of nowhere, and he quickly found everyday interactions impossible. After three days in bed wondering what was happening to him, he stepped outside and came within inches of taking his own life at the edge of a cliff in Ibiza. The fact that he didn't and has written an account of his state of mind at the time is perhaps an insight into those who take their own lives suddenly leaving loved ones mystified. Matt could have made that decision within hours of depression dropping upon him and nobody would have known why, if he did not tell of it.
Matt's long slow fight back is carefully chronicled in short insightful chapters. The unstinting love and support he received from his girlfriend Andrea, the repeated panic attacks that set him back, the anxiety he felt. His depression was a whole mix of emotions, but time passed and gradually he improved. The panic attacks became controllable; his life began to open out again. Books and writing were instrumental in his recovery.
The book is also a plea for more understanding of depression. Matt writes that 'Depression is a thin skin'; the late Spike Milligan wrote how those with depression were ' a skin short'. This thin skin is what has made Matt the person he is and more appreciative of life's wonders; his creative gifts have a deeper well of resources to draw on. Control of his illness has enabled Matt to use the gifts that the thin skin has brought him. He is able to feel more alive, more in touch with life.
It's not an easy read, but it is an exceptionally worthwhile read for anyone who wants to gain insight into the nature of depression. What it doesn't offer are quick solutions, for there are none but it offers hope and it offers understanding .
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