Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself

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Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself


Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself

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.

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 in beautiful, elegiac language the anguish of depression, the terror of suicidal thoughts, the slow path to recovery, and the astonishing way animals can heal even the most broken hearts and minds.

Update: Dog Medicine has been acquired by Penguin Random House and is now a New York Times best-seller available worldwide. Find all the latest at Julie’s page here.

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