

Despite this, however, it wasn’t until reading Reasons to Stay Alive that I was able to grasp quite how all-consuming and debilitating the illness can be. I followed him on Twitter and had had great things about his fifth novel – The Humans – but it was Reasons to Stay Alive that i bought on a recent trip to my local Waterstones.ĭepression and mental illness is something I’m fairly well acquainted with – I suffer from neither myself but know a number of people who do and I’ve previously run two half marathons as well as the London Marathon to raise money for Mind, the mental health charity. I bought Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive without really knowing what it was about.
