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|author=Julie Barton
|title=Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=It was 1996 and Julie Barton was twenty-two years old and one year into her job in publishing in New York when she collapsed on the kitchen floor of her apartment in Manhattan. She was severely depressed, an illness provoked, on the face of it, but the end of a destructive romantic relationship - or was it the end? Will kept coming back, in the early hours of the morning, sleeping with her, then leaving again. When Julie collapsed all she could think to do was to ring her mother who drove from Ohio to New York and took her home. Despite the best intentions of her parents and therapists, Julie seemed unable to break out of the depression, until she finally made just one positive decision - to adopt a Golden Retriever puppy whom she called Bunker Hill.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834486</amazonuk>
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|author= Sue Perkins
|summary=If you have ever suffered from depression you'll find it very difficult to explain to other people how you're feeling. You're not feeling ''just a little bit down''. A treat or a dollop of positive thinking will not miraculously cure you. You're definitely not swinging the lead, but suffering from a legitimate illness which deserves to be recognised. Elizabeth Swados is a long-term sufferer from severe depression: she's also a talented storyteller and has told her the story of how depression feels for her - complete with drawings, which fill in those gaps which words can never fill for any sufferer from depression.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609806042</amazonuk>
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