Summary of Matt Haig's Reasons To Stay Alive

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 I had no understanding or awareness of depression, except that I knew my mother had suffered from it for a little while after I was born. I was twenty-four years old, living in Spain, and I didn’t want to be alive any more. I wanted to be dead.

#2 I was in Italy for a vacation, when I started to feel extremely depressed. I felt like I was going insane, and I wanted to kill myself. I didn’t have terms like depression or panic disorder in my head, so I thought that what I was experiencing was something that everyone else had felt.

#3 Depression is not just a feeling of sadness. It is the feeling of infinite torture, which can be just as bad as any other affliction. It can affect anyone, regardless of wealth, hair, or marital status.

#4 I had to stop feeling this way. It was preposterously easy to consider taking my own life, versus the pain of living. But I didn’t.