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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R399
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A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into
madness, and how running saved his life. "Voluntary or
involuntary?" 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. "Run, I thought. Run
before it's too late and you're stuck down there. Right now. Run. "
The impulse that starts with sprints across a hospital rooftop
turns into all night runs in the mountains. Through motion and
immersion in the beauty of nature, Thompson finds a way out of the
hell of depression and drug addiction. Step by step, mile by mile,
his body and mind heal. In this lyrical, vulnerable, and
breathtaking memoir, J. M. Thompson, now a successful psychologist,
retraces the path that led him from despair to wellness, detailing
the chilling childhood trauma that caused his depression, and the
unorthodox treatment that saved him. Running Is a Kind of Dreaming
is a luminous literary testament to the universal human capacity to
recover from our deepest wounds.
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