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The rules of the tunnel : my brief period of madness / Ned Zeman.

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Gotham Books, c2011.

Zeman, Ned -- Mental health.

Manic-depressive persons -- United States -- Biography.

Manic-depressive persons -- Rehabilitation.

Manic-depressive illness -- Treatment.

9781592405985 (hardback)

1592405983 (hardback)

308 p. ; 22 cm.

Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back to normal. At age thirty-two, anxiety and depression gripped Zeman with increasing violence and consequences. He experimented with therapist after therapist, medication after medication, hospital after hospital- including McLean Hospital. Zeman eventually went further, by trying electroconvulsive therapy, aka shock treatment, aka "the treatment of last resort." By the time it was over, Zeman had lost nearly two years' worth of memory. He was a reporter with amnesia. He had no choice but to start from scratch, to reassemble the pieces of a life he didn't remember and, increasingly, didn't want to. This is a blistering account of Zeman's twisted ride to hell and back-a return made possible by friends real and less so, among them the dead "eccentrics" he once profiled.

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