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Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

6 reviews

fluture's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring relaxing medium-paced

4.75

Buku yang amat informatif dan menggambarkan secara tepat seperti apa perasaan atau apa yang dirasakan penderita depresi atau serangan panik ketika hal yang mereka derita tersebut kembali muncul. Tidak hanya reminder kecil yang diberikan oleh penulis yang membekas di benak saya, cara penulis menceritakan jatuh bangunnya ia dalam usaha untuk sembuh juga berhasil menyandarkan saya kalau pemilihan tidak bersikap linear dan kemajuan sekecil apapun merupakan suatu hal yang membanggakan. Kemauan dan kesabaran adalah dua kunci utama untuk bisa bertahan dalam proses penyembuhan dari penyakit mental ini.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body shaming and Addiction

chelle22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

cuara17_on's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug use

beatriks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

Lovely book. Easy read. Would recommend it to anybody. Anybody who knows somebody with mental health problems, who has struggled with problems (or not), who is interested in happiness or increasing empathic skills.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

someonelikeblue's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

When I first read RTSA in 2016 I hoped for this book to fix me, to pull me out of the dark place I was in. It didn't, obviously, but it gave me a sliver of hope that one day I might leave the place I was in. And a lot of comfort that I wasn't alone in my struggles. 
This isn't a self-help book. It doesn't talk about therapy, because that was not Matt Haigs experience. It more so describes a slow journey from a hopeless to a hopeful place, the incremental steps it took to get there. Some of his solutions for how he got better don't work for me, but that is okay because I still apprechiate the openness and sincerity with which he puts into words what depression and anxiety disorders feel like.
Matt Haigs writing resonates with me like few other texts do. I have about 15 quotes from the book taped to my wall and every time I look at them I feel it again: a lot of comfort and a sliver of hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

spiffleh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use