Sally Brampton is a highly regarded journalist, author and magazine editor and this book chronicles her fight back to "normality" after a four year battle against depression and alcoholism. Extremely raw and written from the heart the book gives an honest undiluted account of her descent into this debilitating illness. The book is punctuated with interesting articles from leading psychoanalysts and psychotherapists giving a real insight to the struggle against finding a "cure" for what is now commonly known as the Black Dog. However, I do not feel it is a good read for anyone struggling with this illness because Sally's struggle back to relative normality is, quite understandably, full of negativity. I think writing the book was extremely therapeutic for her, and although I found it uncomfortable reading at some points, I did enjoy it.
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