Books like Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

A practical guide that uses Alfred Adler’s psychology to help readers free themselves from past baggage and societal expectations, fostering self‑determination, happiness, and lasting personal growth.

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history's most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our "secular age" in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment's insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide.

A collection of short stories that helps children understand and talk about sadness, encouraging healthy emotional expression and support among peers.

Depression is Real, depression is strong, painful, and only the strong survive. Warning: this book may contain content that could be sensitive to the viewer.

A boy named Barney Willow transforms into a cat and must navigate a new school to save his missing father.

Prince, a young Labrador, narrates his journey in the park as he follows the Labrador Pact, guided by an elder dog named Henry while trying to uphold responsibilities that clash with the turmoil in the Hunter family.