Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression by Sally Brampton. Sally worked in the fashion industry in the UK for many years before launching the highly successful Elle magazine in the U.K. in 1985. Most would probably consider this a fantastic life, and it was filled with many of the trappings of the high life that the very wealthy typically lead. But behind the successful and public persona was a woman living with severe depression, drug abuse and raging alcoholism. Few knew or even suspected there were problems. For this was still in the dark days of mental illness where the general public viewed metal illness as something that one brings on themselves and simply isn't dealing with.