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Nothing Was The Same (2009)

by Kay Redfield Jamison(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307265374 (ISBN13: 9780307265371)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: I enjoyed and learned from the author's book Nothing Was Ever the SAme. I decided to read this book about her own manic depression. Having many in the family that have had this illness, it was enlightening to read why Kay was resistant to taking Lithium. I have witnessed relatives and others not take their meds and couldn't see why they would do that. After Kay's description of how high the highs are and all you get accomplished (or feel like you are) it makes it easier to see why this happens. This is a no hold back book that tells how her life has been affected by having manic depression. The last of it is exceptionally insightful when she asks herself--If I could choose, would I have had manic depression?
review 2: EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the internatio... morenally acclaimed author of *An Unquiet Mind,* an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness—as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, *Nothing Was the Same* is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer. less

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