{"product_id":"the-rules-of-the-tunnel-my-brief-period-of-madness-paperback","title":"The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNed Zeman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA journalist faces his toughest assignment: profiling himself as he struggles with mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy, and the quest to get back to normal. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-five million Americans suffer from clinical depression. But Ned Zeman never thought he'd be one of them. He had a great life and thriving career at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen, 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, the facility famed for its treatment of writers, from Sylvia Plath to Susanna Kaysen to David Foster Wallace. Zeman eventually went further by trying electroconvulsive therapy, aka shock treatment.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the time it was over, Zeman had lost nearly two years' 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and hopeful, \u003ci\u003e The Rules of the Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e is a guttural shout of a book that defies conventional notions about mood disorders, unlocks mysteries within mysteries, and proves that sometimes everything you're looking for is right in front of you.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNed Zeman is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003eand has written for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek, Spy, GQ, Outside, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e. Two of his articles were finalists for the National Magazine Award, and he cowrote the screenplay for \u003ci\u003eSugarland\u003c\/i\u003e, a film starring Jodie Foster. He lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 03, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43788961087623,"sku":"9781592407217","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8iN00W0tj99781592407217.webp?v=1769701828","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-rules-of-the-tunnel-my-brief-period-of-madness-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}