Running Is a Kind of Dreaming A Memoir by J. M. Thompson (Paperback Book)

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.\n\u201CVoluntary or involuntary?\u201D asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was falling into an inescapable darkness. He decided that death was his only exit route from the torture of his mind. After a suicide attempt, he spent weeks confined on the psych ward, feeling scared, alone, and trapped. One afternoon during an exercise break he experienced a sudden urge. \u201CRun, I thought. Run before it\u2019s too late and you\u2019re stuck down there. Right now. Run. \u201D \n The impulse that starts with sprints across a hospital rooftop turns into all\n\nRunning Is a Kind of Dreaming\nA Memoir\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services;