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A review by dakotavander
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
5.0
☁️ ☀️ Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig ☀️ ☁️
I’m not one to believe in fate… but…I read this book about a year ago on my kindle and vowed to buy it and read it again if I ever found it in my local used bookstore. I searched for a year, every time I went to the store, and never found it.
A couple weeks ago I had my first major depressive episode since I was in treatment two years ago. It felt like I would never be the same and it would never end. I just so happen to go to the bookstore during that time and what is there? This book. I immediately bought it instead of what I came for and began to reread it.
The way Matt Haig candidly addresses his own struggles with mental illness encourages me to address my own and this book is a poignant reminder that I’m not alone and that this feeling won’t last forever.
I think I got something different out of this read than I did the last time I read it. My biggest take away this time is to find a way to live “because” of my mental illness, not “in spite of”. That was powerful to me.
Last year I also read his book “The Midnight Library” which is now one of my favorite books of all time. I’ve also read his “How To Stop Time” and “Notes on a Nervous Planet” and I have yet to read something of his that I didn’t like. Highly recommend.
💕 ☁️ Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig ☁️ 💕
In this memoir-ish self-help book, Matt Haig is candid about his own struggles with anxiety and depression while sharing tactics that helped him and others overcome and power through.
I loved this short and sweet and honest look at depression. I love how he was able to really address the seriousness of the disease and how it can truly affect people’s day to day life. As someone who is going through their own mental health journey, I loved seeing that not only am I not alone in this but also there are people who have gotten through it and live with it every day.
In this memoir-ish self-help book, Matt Haig is candid about his own struggles with anxiety and depression while sharing tactics that helped him and others overcome and power through.
I loved this short and sweet and honest look at depression. I love how he was able to really address the seriousness of the disease and how it can truly affect people’s day to day life. As someone who is going through their own mental health journey, I loved seeing that not only am I not alone in this but also there are people who have gotten through it and live with it every day.