Reasons to Stay Alive

by Matt Haig

In order to cope with living they simplify themselves. They concentrate on one thing at a time. But depression is a kind of quantum physics of thought and emotion. It reveals what is normally hidden. It unravels you, and everything you have known. It turns out that we are not only made of the universe, of “star-stuff,” to borrow Carl Sagan’s phrase, but we are as vast and complicated as it too.