Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Off The Shelf with Morgann Book · #51: Why Matt Haig Reads 1-Star Reviews of The Midnight Library · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

You've got Winnie the Pooh himself, who I believe could be classed as an addict to honey.

Mm-hmm.

You've got Christopher Robin who potentially is hallucinating the whole thing.

So I see Winnie the Pooh as a comment on different mental states.

A.A.

Milne would have thought of it differently.

But I think it's all the different states of the mind are represented in Winnie the Pooh.

So that was one of the books that comforted me in that state of distress.

But no, it was a long, long process of recovery because...

I went the long way around.

I was resistant to medical help.

I was never offered therapy.

We couldn't have afforded a therapist.

So it was three years of hell.

Yet out of it, when I emerged the other side,

I felt kind of reborn, and I think one of the reasons I got published and wanted to be a writer after that, or felt like I could be a writer after that, was because I was almost like, in my late 20s, I was kind of like,

I had this arrogance or this extreme confidence that I could do anything because prior to the depression, I didn't feel like that.

But during depression, my depression was convinced I was gonna die from the depression.

I was convinced I wouldn't make it to 25 years of age.

I was always thinking by the end of the week, I'd be in a straitjacket or a hospital.

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