Book description
'Time equals progression. Progression equals death.'
This is a thought that consumes Ed Zine, a handsome, athletic,
twenty-four year old.
The victim of a debilitating form of obsessive compulsive disorder
(OCD), Ed's illogical mind tells him that if going forward in time moves
him closer to death, reversing an action will carry him away from it.
The youngest of four children, Ed Zine's life was thrown into turmoil
when his mother, the centre of his universe, died from ovarian cancer
when he was just eleven years old. Not warned by his family that his
mother was sick, and beaten and screamed at by his father on the night
of his mother's death for leaving the lid off a jam jar, Ed was
shell-shocked when his mother died and, for years, kept quiet about the
fact that he witnessed his mother's last breath and never truly grieved
her death.
Ed's trauma over the loss of his mother manifested itself in bizarre
physical affectations and as he became less able to articulate his
sorrow and his pain he became more and more isolated from other humans.
Thirteen years on, Ed Zine lived alone in a basement, meticulously
counting and rewinding any action he made in an obsessive and illogical
attempt to prevent his loved ones from moving towards death.
All efforts to help him, from members of his family, and numerous
medical professionals, had been in vain, until Dr Michael Jenike,
professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and one of the
world's leading experts in research and treatment of OCD made the long
drive to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This was just the beginning of the
extensive and difficult journey the two were to endure together… TERRY
WEIBLE is an executive producer of television programming. In the past
she has worked for Telepictures, CBS/Eyemark, Twentieth Television,
Multimedia Entertainment and CNBC. She served on the board of directors
for Obsessive Compulsive Foundation for two years. She is a single
mother and she lives in New York.
MICHAEL A. JENIKE is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical
School and is the founder and medical director of the Massachusetts
General Hospital Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Insitute at McLean
Hosiptal. He is also the founder of the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Clinic and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
He currently lives with his fiancee, Carla, outside of Boston.
EDWARD E. ZINE, once a prospective student athlete at Clemson
University, lives with Mayada, his wife of nine years, and his two
beautiful daughters, Alexandria and Isabella. An aspiring animator with
an expertise in construction, Ed and his family currently reside on Cape
Cod in the home Ed built himself.
