A reassuring window on depression
Memoir: Reasons To Stay Alive. By Matt Haig. Canongate, €13.50. Reviewed by Fiona Ness
When a 32-year-old Abraham Lincoln opined that he was “now the most miserable man living”, he had nothing on Matt Haig. By that age, Lincoln had experienced two massive depressive breakdowns; Haig had spent eight years “trapped in a cyclone” of extreme, crippling depression and anxiety. It was an explosive confluence of mental stressors that left him exiled on the edge of suicide.
“People describe depression as ...
