"Alix Otto is having a very bad day. Easily her worst so far. A year since they fished her friend's body from the river, she finds herself hounded, haunted and driven to the brink. Caught in a situation she cannot explain, Alix is sectioned and left in the hands of an umbrella health system with her delusions running wild. Barking is a tale of grief, madness and the ghosts that haunt us"-- Back cover. "Loopy... cuckoo... stark raving... When the depression and grief Alix feels over the death of her friend overwhelm her, she's institutionalised. But inside a psychiatric ward, things don't get better for her -- now she has nowhere to get away from her rapidly-spiraling thoughts. As Alix navigates disinterested attendants, group therapy, and isolation, she must build herself a new equilibrium and tame the black dog of her depression. Inspired by her own struggles with mental health, Lucy Sullivan tells a powerful, emotional story about the problems that sometimes overwhelm us all -- and the failures in the mental health system we depend on"-- Provided by publisher.
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