Dog Medicine
A Animals, Nonfiction, Dogs book. Im sure she can wait until tomorrow, my Julie Barton, Dog Medicine: How...
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 slow path to recovery, and the astonishing way animals can heal even the most broken hearts and minds.ADVANCE PRAISE“Dog Medicine is the kind of memoir that will bring tears of sadness and joy to anyone who has ever felt rescued by a pet. It is a...
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- Pages: 222 pages
- ISBN: 9780986360787 / 0
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In New York, I would walk down shadowy sidewalks dreaming of the openness of central Ohio, yearning for roads flanked by fields, for their freedom and isolation. These roads cradled me. I realized this now. Id been trying to hate Ohio, because it was so hard to be at home. But the land had actually always been there for me all along. As a child, the moon had lit my room on sad nights. Id wandered cornfields and puttered around at Lehmans Pond. Those were some of my best childhood memories. Julie Barton, Dog Medicine I needed a companion who had no judgment, with whom I had no history, who would make it known that I was loved, who would never, ever hurt me. Julie Barton, Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself The way Bunker loved me, so fully, clearly, and without exception, helped me remember every day to try to bring that kind of love to myself and others in my life. Julie Barton, Dog Medicine
"It was hard to comprehend, but our meeting felt like two magnets clacking together, two universes colliding, two hands clasping. I was absolutely sure that this was my dog and that I was meant to find him...the way Bunker loved me, so fully, clearly, and without exception, helped me remember every day to try to bring that kind of love... In Julie Bartons memoir, Dog Medicine, love and healing come full circle. Bunker saves Julie. Julie saves Bunker. And in the case of this particular reader, Julie and Bunker saved both me and my dog, Tommy. In a voice that is unflinchingly candid and gracefully honest, Julie Barton held me spellbound with the story of her battle with... I have some experience with depression and what it can do to people, so I opened this book with caution bordering on skepticism. What could Dog Medicine tell me that I didn't already know? What I discovered was not new truth about clinical depression. Instead, Barton gives us a lesson in mercy. Sometimes in life (on the internet, in...
