Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig 2015

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
depression anxiety memoir recovery

Our Take

Haig had a panic attack at twenty-four and spent two years unable to leave the house, unable to see a future. This memoir is not a triumph narrative — he is still managing it. The list of reasons to stay alive at the end is the most honest inventory in recent memoir, because he includes the ones that are small.

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