'This brave and moving memoir challenges all the clichés about mental illness ... All who know the pain of depression will find the book immensely useful, and so will their friends and relations' Sunday Times'Brave and honest ... It must have been terribly painful to write it. But, golly, am I glad that Sally Brampton did' IndependentShoot the Damn Dog blasts the stigma of depression as a character flaw and confro...

A searing, raw memoir of depression that is ultimately uplifting and inspiring.A successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist, Sally Brampton launched Elle magazine in the UK in 1985. But behind the successful, glamorous career was a story that many of her friends and colleagues knew nothing about—her ongoing struggle with severe depression and alcoholism. Brampton's is a candid, tremendously honest telling of how she was finally able to "addres...