Sally Brampton Quotes

“A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.”

Sally Brampton

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

“As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.”

Sally Brampton

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.”

Sally Brampton

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

“Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.”

Sally Brampton

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

“Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.”

Sally Brampton

Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression