Matt Haig - Notes on a Nervous Planet
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Praise for Notes on a Nervous Planet
A primer for how to live in the present moment, this book will find grateful readers everywhere.
Nigella Lawson, author of How to Be a Domestic Goddess and Nigella Bites
Take Notes on a Nervous Planet twice daily, with or without food. Crammed with wisdom, insight, love, and wit.
Stephen Fry
Likable and thought-provoking... A wonderfully perceptive chronicle of life in the always-on social media age.
The Guardian (UK)
Witty, honest, and engaging. Haig shows great skill in describing the invisible cyclone of depression... A worthy successor to Reasons to Stay Alive.
The Sunday Times (UK)
Notes on a Nervous Planet contains lists, imagined conversations, essays, and personal stories that critique the damage that worryabout the environment, politics, the news, and everything else that demands our attention on a daily basiswreaks on our ability to live a full life. Haig artfully, powerfully counters these challenges with battle-tested advice from his own hard-won experience.
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In this illuminating follow-up to his memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, novelist and childrens author Haig (How to Stop Time, 2018, etc.) continues to explore how the rapid pace of our modern world can adversely affect our psyche... In bite-sized chapters, the author considers the various issues that plague us, including our increasing addiction to smartphones and social media, the emotional impact of absorbing 24-hour cycles of often grueling international news events, and our collective lack of sleep.... [An] often wise and inspiring self-help title strengthened by the authors very personal experiences and acquired insight.
Kirkus Reviews
[Haig] is a smart operator who knows his readership and genuinely wants to help them... I reached the last page admiring the authors inventive energy and insight.
The Daily Mail (London)
Warm and wise. If the modern world is making you anxious, this is the perfect book for you.
Claudia Hammond, author of Time Warped
Beautiful, honest and wise.
Fearne Cotton, BBC Radio
A convincing, wise, and reassuring book.
The Irish Times
Is the modern world doing our heads in? Matt Haig shares our fears and gives answers to the question from many different angles. An enthralling book.
Jo Brand, author of The More You Ignore Me
PENGUIN BOOKS
NOTES ON A NERVOUS PLANET
Matt Haig is the author of the internationally bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, along with six novels, including How to Stop Time, and several award-winning childrens books. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
The Last Family in England
The Dead Fathers Club
The Possession of Mr. Cave
The Radleys
The Humans
Humans: An AZ
Reasons to Stay Alive
How to Stop Time
FOR CHILDREN
The Runaway Troll
Shadow Forest
To Be a Cat
Echo Boy
A Boy Called Christmas
The Girl Who Saved Christmas
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First published in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd 2018
Published in Penguin Books 2019
Copyright 2018 by Matt Haig
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Names: Haig, Matt, 1975 author.
Title: Notes on a nervous planet / Matt Haig.
Description: New York : Penguin Books, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018032891| ISBN 9780143133421 (paperback) | ISBN 9780525505211 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Stress management. | Conduct of life. | BISAC: SELF-HELP / Depression. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. | PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias.
Classification: LCC RA785 .H335 2019 | DDC 616.89dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018032891
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For Andrea
Toto, Ive a feeling were not in Kansas anymore.
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
I was stressed out.
I was walking around in circles, trying to win an argument on the internet. And Andrea was looking at me. Or I think Andrea was looking at me. It was hard to tell, as I was looking at my phone.
Matt? Matt?
Uh. Yeah?
Whats up? she asked, in the kind of despairing voice that develops with marriage. Or marriage to me.
Nothing.
You havent looked up from your phone in over an hour. Youre just walking around, banging into furniture.
My heart was racing. There was a tightness in my chest. Fight or flight. I felt cornered and threatened by someone on the internet who lived over 8,000 miles away from me and who I would never meet, but who was still managing to ruin my weekend. Im just getting back to something.
Matt, get off there.
I just
The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.
Matt!
An hour later, in the car, Andrea glanced at me in the passenger seat. I wasnt on my phone, but I had a tight hold of it, for security, like a nun clutching her rosary.
Matt, are you okay?
Yeah. Why?
You look lost. You look like you used to look, when...
She stopped herself saying when you had depression but I knew what she meant. And besides, I could feel anxiety and depression around me. Not actually there but close. The memory of it something I could almost touch in the stifling air of the car.
Im fine, I lied. Im fine, Im fine...
Within a week I was lying on my sofa, falling into my eleventh bout of anxiety.
I was scared. I couldnt not be. Being scared is what anxiety is all about.
The bouts were becoming closer and closer. I was worried where I was heading. It seemed there was no upper limit to despair.
I tried to distract myself out of it. However, I knew from past experience alcohol was off limits. So I did the things that had helped before to climb out of a hole. The things I forget to do in day-to-day life. I was careful about what I ate. I did yoga. I tried to meditate. I lay on the floor and placed my hand on my stomach and inhaled deeplyin, out, in, outand noticed the stuttery rhythm of my breath.
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