Sally Brampton says she is an optimist. She loves her family, her garden and her friends. She is also an extremely talented journalist and a novelist, and听the founding editor of British Elle. But she is also a depressive, and in the past听has become so ill that she has听twice attempted suicide. Her memoir of depression, Shoot the Damn Dog, has just been published, and she joins Jenni to talk about the isolation, stigma and ignorance that still surround one of the most common of illnesses.
Shoot the Damn Dog is published by Bloomsbury,听 ISBN: 978-0747572411
