Dog Medicine
How My Dog Saved Me from Myself
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4.6 • 126 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman’s battle with depression and how her dog saved her life
A New York Times Bestseller
“Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read.” —Cheryl Strayed
At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie’s incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home.
Haunted by troubling childhood memories, Julie continued to sink into suicidal depression. Psychiatrists, therapists, and family tried to intervene, but nothing reached her until the day she decided to do one hopeful thing: adopt a Golden Retriever puppy she named Bunker. Dog Medicine captures the anguish of depression, the slow path to recovery, the beauty of forgiveness, and the astonishing ways animals can help heal even the most broken hearts and minds.
Customer Reviews
A Must Read
I absolutely adored this book and sense it is helping me do some pre-grieving for my fourteen year old dog. I could not put it down and I truly do believe that there are soul animals that come into our lives to help support us. Bunker was/is precisely for Julie as she was for him when he needed her. A beautifully written memoir where she did not hold back and allows us into the most intimate and tender parts of her lived experience.
I’m not alone
After devouring this book in 3 days I was happy to find comfort in the fact that I’m not the only crazy dog lady that misses her dogs terribly anytime I leave them and would rather stay home in their company than any social event. That my feeling of sadness or pain goes away with a lick or a head bump or with them simply sitting quietly next to me as long as I need them to. Thank you Julie
Great Story
This book was great from beginning to end.