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Anteckningar från en orolig planet by Matt Haig

23 reviews

pinkdino88's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is my second time reading this book and it was as comforting to me this time around as the first time. Matt Heig reflects on mental health and its connection to how busy the world we live in is. Like his other books where he discusses his own mental health it, it felt so validating. For example his explanation of why super markets are a place a lot of people get panick attacks. I also appreciated that for a book discussing the problems with the Internet, social media and technology he also mentioned the good of the Internet. I think this is a book I will return to at many points in my life.

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fionnlister's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced

3.0

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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hudapages's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

“What does it mean to feel truly alive? How can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad?”

In Notes on a Nervous Planet, it focuses on how the world is affecting your mental health with the existence of social media. How social media can both help and hinder’s people mental health, and how it also can be the part of people. The main mental health focus in this book is partly about anxiety as it is the most relatable subject on how we can stay sane in this world, or should I say the modern world? Apart from mental health, this book also discusses how modern technology influences our behaviour. Too much addiction to modern technology or social media can make us feel anxious, and the worst part is, it does affect the quality of life we lead.

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loftio's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

Helpful, but not life-changing

I chose to read this book as the first of 2022 because it felt like it lined up with the idea of changing my social media habits (which I have done dramatically).

Overall, I enjoyed the book and the themes covered felt very important and timely. It didn't particularly change my mind about anything, but it did reinforce the idea of changing my habits. I am already in the mindset of making changes, and I've put some of those into action ahead of reading the book, now after reading there's a few other things I'd like to change in my routine, so in general it's been helpful

A note however... this book is written by somebody with anxiety, I do not have anxiety, but if I did I don't this book would be helpful. The first half almost made me feel anxious by proxy, just by reading Haig's narrative on the world. While he does offer some thoughts and reflections on certain topics like social media addictions, self-esteem and the overload of information we consume in modern life, it doesn't feel like there are many solutions. So in that way, I'm unsure whether I'd recommend this to the people I originally thought might benefit from it the most.

Also I think this book could have been half the length, but I think that about most 'self-help' style books.

On the flip side, I absolutely love Haig's fictional writing, so I'll be picking up The Midnight Library very soon!

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mikaelaandherbooks's review against another edition

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hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.0

I find Matt Haig's nonfiction work to always be really thought-provoking and reflective; however, I definitely prefer Reasons to Stay Alive over this one. I just didn't feel like this one was as impactful as RTSA.

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