Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me from Myself

By Julie Barton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143130013
• ISBN13: 9780143130017
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Really wonderful, heart-warming, and inspiring.

This book tells the true story of a young woman who appeared to be terminally depressed. Nothing would help. Not until she met the dog who saved her life. Highly recommended.