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Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig6/11/2023 ‘Depression gives the bleakest world view imaginable. Haig has reflected on the nature of the depression and lucidly describes the characteristics of the illness as he experienced it.ĭepression, he says, affected his relationship with time. Rates of suicide vary so much between genders, ages, nations, and different cultures. This close call led him to realise that while depression is a universal condition, suicide is preventable. It wasn’t that he wanted to die, but he felt he could hardly bear the pain and terror he was experiencing. It's like you're kind of invisible, even though you can see yourself.It was so scary and alienating that he thought of throwing himself off the beautiful limestone cliffs into Mediterranean. It literally makes you feel like you're not real, it's a very hard thing to explain.
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