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

I'm not a doctor, I'm not a therapist.

I don't have official answers.

I think my role, as much as a writer can do, is to sort of just offer insight, articulate things.

And I think that is a role.

I mean, when I was seriously ill,

I couldn't articulate myself.

That was one of my symptoms.

I was kind of in this world of silence.

I spoke in monosyllables.

Sometimes my tongue was physically heavy, so I literally, on a physical level, couldn't speak sometimes.

So I think anyone who can...

give voice to that is doing something useful um but yeah i struggled with that for a while and i felt a bit of a fraud for a while because i was there i'd written this book that apparently was helping people and yet i myself was would be going through like a mental health crisis uh like in 2016 i was quite mentally ill again and so i had this book out there that was doing well

And I myself was talking at events about mental health and my recovery, inverted commas, and yet I was still in a state where I didn't know I was neurodivergent, I had never had therapy, I was still having panic attacks, I was still prone to depression.

So there was this idea that I'd have this voice in my head like, who are you kidding?

You know what I mean?

So that was tricky.

So I'm very clear now

that I'm a continual work in progress.

I'm not in the sort of nirvana of perfect mental health.

I've come a long way.

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