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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I've sort of got on top of my addiction issues.
I haven't drank for five years.
I've had therapy, I know what sort of works for me, but that's not to say I won't be depressed again or have things happen to me.
And I just try and be as honest as possible.
I think being honest about what I don't know, being honest about the bad stuff,
is help.
It would have helped me.
It helped me when my mum, who had postnatal depression with me, gave me her diary from that time, and I read.
She had one of those five-year diaries, so you could see this day in 1975, then it would be 1976.
So you'd see her progress just on the page year by year.
And so that was everything.
Because when I had my breakdown, I didn't know anyone in my family who had spoken about mental health.
and so people say oh what are you like with your kids because i've got kids of my own do you talk to them about it and yeah i do and i think it's important to you know in the right way because i needed examples living examples so hopefully my example to my kids isn't oh you will get depression it's like when anything bad happens to you in life which you know life that happens you will survive it you have that ability you have an inner strength that you don't know you have
Not sort of an official journal, but I would write things down, what I was feeling, and I'd write very bad poetry.
Like the lyrics of the worst heavy metal songs.
Lots of fire, lots of crows, lots of like darkness.
Very emo and very just heavy.
But it's still like articulating stuff.
I'm a great believer in like taking internal intensity and putting it into words.
I mean, that's what therapy is.
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