![]() ![]() He obviously has a complex and conflicted relationship with medication. Haig credits not taking pills with being alert enough to observe what made him feel better, or worse, and then act accordingly. The sections about getting better seem to focus more on self-care. Doctor’s visits, therapy, and medication are mentioned much more passingly. ![]() In general this book is much more about the experience of depression in its various stages than about recovery from it. Presented in a variety of essays, lists, and anecdotes, it offers small, accessible pieces to help digest a difficult topic. From the distance of fourteen years, Haig recounts the experience, and the slow road back to mental and physical health. ![]() In retrospect, there were a few warning signs, but nothing that would have stuck out without the breakdown. After a few very intense days, he found himself standing on the edge of a cliff, contemplating ending his life. ![]() He had perhaps been drinking too much, and sleeping too little, but the severity of the breakdown seemed out of all proportion to anything that had gone before. Matt Haig and his girlfriend Andrea were spending the summer in Ibiza, working at one of the island’s biggest party destinations when the otherwise reasonably healthy twenty-four year old suffered a mental breakdown, consisting of depression, panic attacks, and suicidal thoughts. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.” They give you options when you have none. ![]()
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