Matt Haig
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
At the age of 24, Matt Haig was working in Ibiza with his girlfriend when he had a life-changing panic attack. Today he talks to Fearne about what happened next, his slow road to recovery and acceptance - and how the author of Reasons To Stay Alive found writing and talking about his experiences has helped him and others.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and a huge thank you for all of your |
| 0:07.1 | feedback you've sent us on our first few episodes. We've had over 405 star |
| 0:12.9 | reviews on Apple podcasts including this lovely one from Red who says, |
| 0:17.7 | I've just listened to my first ever podcast and must say quite simply fabulous. |
| 0:22.7 | That's what we want to hear. Thank you so much Red. If this is your first podcast |
| 0:27.7 | or indeed your 100th welcome aboard. Now this week my guest is the author Matt |
| 0:33.9 | Hague who I'm a huge fan of. He's written some wonderful novels but one of the |
| 0:38.4 | things he's most known for is his book on depression and he has some really |
| 0:43.1 | inspiring things to say about it. It was something I was scared of writing. You know |
| 0:47.5 | no one really knows who I am and like is it that unusual what I went through and |
| 0:51.7 | then I thought well that could almost be the point of it. It was incredibly |
| 0:56.2 | intense and incredibly life-friendly but also common. Just a little warning we |
| 1:01.6 | do go to some dark corners during our chat so if you need to hold off |
| 1:05.6 | listening until you're in the right frame of mind that is of course 100% okay. |
| 1:09.6 | Pause the show and just come back to it later. |
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