The Rules of the Tunnel

Ned Zeman, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, recounts his struggle with clinical depression and he describes mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and his own quest to get back to normal. His memoir The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness recounts suddenly being gripped by anxiety and depression at age 32. He experimented with various therapists, medication, hospitals, even trying electroconvulsive therapy, and he writes of his struggle to overcome the depression that had taken over his life.