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Reasons to Stay Alive

Reasons to Stay Alive, authored by novelist Matt Haig, was published on March 5th, 2015. It is a memoir based on life experiences of living with Major depressive disorder and Anxiety disorder. It was reviewed by The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, the Star Tribune, and the Toronto Star.Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt Haig’s first non-fiction piece and the first time he openly writes about his illness publicly. The book is about making the most of one's time on earth written based on the writer's experience from his own life. At the age of 24, the writer himself suffered from severe depression. In the book, he unfolded how he recovered and learned to live with depression. The book takes readers through Matt Haig’s own experiences of living with severe depression and panic disorders and how day by day he got to overcome the disease. It is an autobiographical, real story of how he learned to appreciate life in all aspects while dealing with depression in the modern world.