Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

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 con...