“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

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British writer 1955–2016

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