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“Depression for me was total exposure. A red-raw, naked mind. A skinned personality. A brain in a jar full of the acid that is experience. I'm not talking about all that What doesn't kill you makes you stronger stuff. No. That's simply not true. What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your life.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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“If pills work for you it doesn't really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

tags: depression, pills

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“So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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“Monsters are real,” Stephen King said. “And ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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“Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and Short. Paragraphs. Light was everything. But so, increasingly, were books. I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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