Matt Haig
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2,177 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Matt Haig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They'd be surprised I'm alive.
They'd be like amazed that I managed to make a job out of the thing I love.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, but I would love to go back and plant that seed of hope in my young brain.
I'm not saying my life's perfect now, and I still have mental health problems sometimes and all of that, but just the fact that I managed to take something horrendous and turn it into something good, I think would have been everything to know that at that time.
It's a very good question.
I mean, it was only written in 2015, which isn't like a lifetime ago, but there was no real mental health conversation happening in 2015.
This whole mental health talk that we have all over the internet and everywhere now is relatively new.
It's definitely within my adulthood.
When I was ill, 10 years before that, there was no mental health conversation.
When you thought of mental illness, you often thought of suicide because that's the people you thought of.
I think I wanted to make someone like me
feel like what they're going through yes it's intense but it's a thing lots of people go through and lots of people survive and i wanted to normalize it and i deliberately wrote it in a very clear very accessible very simple way because i remember how hard it was to read at that point and so short chapters short sentences clear words trying to just
Get the information as clearly, as accessibly as possible.
And to write a book about depression that was honest but managed somehow not to be depressing.
So you start in the bad place and then chapter by chapter you move towards recovery.
And I hope that brings the reader.
The surprising thing, you know, I did write it wanting to help people, but the surprising thing is that a lot of people who read that book aren't necessarily people who are going through it.
They're people who live with someone who's going through it.
So I'm really pleased it's offered a window because it can be very frustrating and possibly frustrating to live with someone who is very mentally ill because it's invisible and it's just annoying.
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