"Shoot the damn dog"

Winston Churchill kaldte depression for "den sorte hund". Og det var en hund, han kendte til. Den har lagt
navn til Sally Bramptons bog "Shoot the damn dog: a memoir of depression" - det er en virkelig god bog, som jeg vil anbefale til alle. Hun skriver om sine egne erfaringer med depression, om sine fremskridt, om behandlingsmuligheder. Den er sjov og den er alvorlig og.. alt muligt andet. Jeg har lånt min ud flere gange, og jeg tror, mange vil kunne få meget ud af den.

Den kan selvfølgelig købes på Amazon


Følgende står på en af de første sider. Jeg har sat en prik ved det første gang, jeg læste det, da jeg havde det rigtig skidt:

“Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom of severe depression, not a character failing or moral flaw. Nor is it, truly, a desire to die so much as a fervent wish not to go on living. All depressives understand that distinction.” 
― Sally Brampton, Shoot The Damn Dog: A Memoir Of Depression

“If you are reading this book and you feel that way too then you are not alone. I understand how you feel. I think that anyone who has suffered from even mild depression understands how it feels. Yet we forget that others understand our suffering. We withdraw, isolate or shut down completely. We lose ourselves in our selves, and in the illness.
It doesn’t have to be that way. If we connect with even one other human being who understands, we take one step out of the illness. Life is about connection. There is nothing else. Depression is the opposite; it is an illness defined by alienation. So I offer this book by way of connection. I offer it, too, as a source of hope. I hope that by sharing what I was like, what happened and what I am like now, that it may bring someone else comfort.” 
― Sally Brampton, Shoot The Damn Dog: A Memoir Of Depression