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From the internationally 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...more

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Published September 15th 2009 by Knopf (first published January 1st 2009)

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EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the internationally 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 reno...more

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Mar 26, 2011 Lightreads rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: disability, memoir, nonfiction

Jamison is on my radar as a prominent person with a disability, though she has never explicitly articulated a disabled identity. Her An Unquiet Mind is a hugely important book, politically speaking, and I salute her for outing herself as someone with severe bipolar, and effectively painting a target on her back for religious nutjobs and many of her ablest asshole colleagues in the medical profession. I mean, what the hell do I know about being targeted in wank, compared to that?

This book, though...more Jamison is on my radar as a prominent person with a disability, though she has never explicitly articulated a disabled identity. Her An Unquiet Mind is a hugely important book, politically speaking, and I salute her for outing herself as someone with severe bipolar, and effectively painting a target on her back for religious nutjobs and many of her ablest asshole colleagues in the medical profession. I mean, what the hell do I know about being targeted in wank, compared to that?

This book, though . . . *shakes head*. It’s a memoir of her husband’s loss to cancer. I picked it up for blah personal reasons blah, and also because it was supposed to be about her struggle to distinguish the grief processes from the organic, chemical misfunction of her illness. As a mental health professional and a person with a mental illness, she could really get at this fascinating thing – distinguishing useful emotion from pathological, talking about the biological processes of intense emotion from the inside.

Yeah no. The book is about that for roughly two pages. The rest of the time it’s an extended obituary, and not a very interesting one. By which I mean that I’m glad she wrote it, because I absolutely get how important a process that can be. I just don’t know why it needed to be published.

The book is mostly about her husband, how wonderful he was, how much she loved him. And then he dies, and it sucks. You’d think, hey, grief is universal, but no. this book isn’t about grief, it’s about Jamison delivering a long eulogy to someone she loved that almost none of her readers will know. And it’s all told in this ponderous, stylized, cinematic mode, all ‘and then he dipped the ring in the North Se and put it on my finger.’ Lots of tell, everything was so romantic and intensely meaningful, you know. I’m sure these things actually happened, but the book has this roseate glow of recollection to it that precludes the more complex, the emotionally analytical, the clarity of insight I expect from Jamison.

Like I said: glad she wrote it. She clearly needed to. I just don’t see what anyone else reading it will get from it.
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Moira Russell Lightreads wrote: "I was articulating it as 'there's a privilege gained in success to be more in-your-face disabled.' Because you've . . . participate...more Lightreads wrote: "I was articulating it as 'there's a privilege gained in success to be more in-your-face disabled.' Because you've . . . participated in the We Shall Overcome narrative, you know? Which in my case means that the privilege of academic success got me a job where I can basically ask for any accommodation I want without ever worrying that I'm too expensive, too disabled, because hey, they've got the money. And I was successful so that's okay, because I'm "worth it."

Oh, yeah -- IIRC Thompson even talks about that some, how in her case she was Award-Winning Writer for the Post and that was a large part of her identity, and she was terrified when she wrote her original article saying she'd been depressed and suicidal that her career was over, and she only dared do it because she'd built up all those accomplishments that other people couldn't deny. It's like that American binary categorization of people as Success/Failure, so when someone is ~~a floor wax AND a dessert topping~~ "a psychiatrist AND manic-depressive" or "a reporter AND an alcoholic" the reaction is like BZZT BZZT WAIT WHAT.

you don't see these memoirs from the other 90%, the people whose incredible accomplishment is actually surviving with a disability on food stamps and government aid. Which is pretty remarkable, IMHO. But that ain't heartwarming

Yeah. That. Exactly. Because I think that's one of the narratives that gets counted as "Failure" (on food stamps, not having a job, unable to leave the house, &c &c). Not hey, this person's not dead, they're enjoying some quality of life and making it! but They don't have shit in their WIN column, so.... It reminds me of Woolf writing about the masses of poor women whose lives don't get written about because they're not important enough. And then the question becomes, by what standard, in whose judgement? &c &c.

And yeah, I think this class of books is very much written for the professional colleague, the relatively affluent and upwardly mobile

Yeah, totally....people make fun of the "Oprah effect," or the "self-help/recovery/memoir movement," altho in my view openly discussing and destigmatizing issues like disability and addiction and mental illness is always a good thing. But it's also, at least in today's publishing market, very....limited (which is one reason, and I will go on about this at length, why I think James Frey's memoir was so universally accepted despite being Full of Shit even before Smoking Gun got to work on him: he fit the template perfectly, especially in his anti-AA anti-group rabidly pro-individualist stance. His image was like he was the Horatio Alger of addiction).(less)
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Chris Excellent review and equally interesting comments afterwards. Completely agree that exploring the distinction between grief and depression would have...more
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Mar 13, 2011 Charlene rated it 4 of 5 stars

I've long been fascinated by the personal/interior lives of scientists, and this book gives us a glance at two very prominent psychiatrists: Kay Jamison and her husband, Richard Wyatt. I was familiar with Kay's story before picking this book up but I have not read An Unquiet Mind. Maybe I was also attracted to this book because it was compared with Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking, which I think is one of the great books of the last decade.
This isn't as good but well worth reading. Au...more

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Apr 22, 2010 David rated it 2 of 5 stars

I feel terrible saying I didn't like the book much. It's a sad story of her husband's (a very well known schizophrenia researcher) death from cancer and her experience of bereavement, and I have a lot of respect for the author, whose research on bipolar disorder and advocacy for patients suffering from it (of whom she is one, as described in one of her earlier books) have made tremendous contributions.

If I could pinpoint the two features I think contributed to my blah reaction to it, though, the...more

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Sep 25, 2009 Rick rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Jamison is the author of An Unquiet Mind, her superb memoir about her bipolar illness (a public secret even as she became one of the world’s leading experts on manic depression, literally co-authoring the textbook the medical profession trains on). Nothing Was the Same is the story of her husband’s, also an influential doctor and scientist, illness and death and Jamison’s experience with the overwhelming grief that comes with such a loss. It’s a profoundly personal book but also one that provide...more Jamison is the author of An Unquiet Mind, her superb memoir about her bipolar illness (a public secret even as she became one of the world’s leading experts on manic depression, literally co-authoring the textbook the medical profession trains on). Nothing Was the Same is the story of her husband’s, also an influential doctor and scientist, illness and death and Jamison’s experience with the overwhelming grief that comes with such a loss. It’s a profoundly personal book but also one that provides insight to grief and how it differs from depression or related illnesses. Jamison, it should be noted, is not just an excellent writer but a creative one, with a deep interest and experience in poetry, fiction, music, art, and spiritual literature—sermons, hymns, prayers. (She is also the author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, an excellent study of the illness’s connection to creativity.)

Jamison comes to this very personal experience with a dual purpose, to honor the love she shared with her husband and to describe clearly the experience of intense grief that she endured, and brings to the task a deep reservoir of knowledge that spans the universe of how we try to understand what happens to us—science, medicine, nature, logic and reason, art, music, literature and religion. What’s amazing is how dazzlingly direct and to her points she is. It’s her story blessed with the insights that her career and her passions bring to the experience. She did not research the difference between grief and depression; she lived it, and describes the difference: “I knew depression to be unrelenting, invariable, impervious to event. I knew its pain to be undeviating. Grief was different. It hit in waves, caught me unawares. It struck when I felt most alive, when I thought I had moved beyond its hold.” Later she writes, “Time alone in grief proved restorative. Time alone in depression was dangerous.” The first sentence anyone might write, but not so simply elegant. The second is the revelatory partner of the first. Combined they are unique to Jamison and her experience and gifts.

She calls on works of art and religion familiar to her or that she reached out to in her attempt to understand her feelings. Works that helped or didn’t. It is not a self-help book but a compelling, very human testimony of a critical, unavoidable experience. It deserves a place next to Donald Hall’s Life Work, another essential, yet brief, memoir of deep and insightful experience with sorrow and loss. Both books are unabashed, without being sensational or self-indulgent, willing to recount love’s presence so we can understand the impact of a lover’s sudden absence. Intimate? Yes, so a little claustrophobic, but necessarily and rewardingly so. Jamison has written a wonderful and courageous book.(less)

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Nov 03, 2009 Sylvia rated it 5 of 5 stars

I just finished this book today. It took me a little less than a day to get through this crisp memoir about losing a soul mate. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book as it was beautifully written and interesting. It was intensely personal and singularly focused on Jamison's relationship and love for her husband. It was so specific to them that I found myself wondering at times, about her husband's relationship to his children and would have liked to have them included as well. Jamison and her hu...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Michelle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, biographical, books-i-own, psych-social, non-fiction

Years ago I read An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison's memoir of her battle with bipolar disorder, for a Freshman Seminar called "Mental Illness and Society", so I was pleased to find a copy of her Nothing Was the Same.

Nothing Was the Same is a much more sedate, sad memoir, as it should be. Jamison spends roughly half of the book explaining why her late husband, Dr. Richard Wyatt, why so perfect for her, how he helped her cope with bipolar disorder, and how his love was so unexpected and rene...more

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Nov 05, 2009 Leslie rated it 2 of 5 stars

To start, I wasn't impressed by the title. However, I've been extremely wowed by the author when reading An Unquiet Mind. I was eager to see how she managed the death of her husband. The first half of the book disappointed me greatly. As a student of writing, I've been taught how important it is to make things new again -- from describing a character in a new, fresh way to one's own unique approach to life experiences such as grief. For me, I didn't think the author delved deep enough. I wanted...more To start, I wasn't impressed by the title. However, I've been extremely wowed by the author when reading An Unquiet Mind. I was eager to see how she managed the death of her husband. The first half of the book disappointed me greatly. As a student of writing, I've been taught how important it is to make things new again -- from describing a character in a new, fresh way to one's own unique approach to life experiences such as grief. For me, I didn't think the author delved deep enough. I wanted more dialogue between the characters to illustrate the love between them. I was constantly reminded of the tight bond between Kay and Richard, but not SHOWN it enough. The author often repeats sentiments/thoughts and ideas throughout the book. I was discouraged by that throughout the length of the memoir. I liked how she brought in quotes from poets and others, but toward the end I feel she relies on the thoughts and expressions of others too much. During the first half of the book, we learn how Richard encouraged her to write An Unquiet Mind, which chronicles Kay's battle with mania and depression. She goes on AT LENGTH about readers' response to this book. It was a great book, but I did not feel that was appropriate as part of this book. Then, when her husband is struggling with disease, we -- as readers -- are not aware of the author's reactions and moods. From the get-go, I was curious how someone with her medical history could deal with the death of a loved one. We get little of the author's emotional barometer during the time her husband is sick. She does mention her moods are under control, but I can't help but think the experience took its toll on her. Later on, we get a more detailed look at how grief and depression differ and converge. I wanted some of what she expresses there to be stated earlier in the book. I felt she wasn't telling readers the whole story (during the first half of the book) and witholding her feelings somewhat concentrating more in Richard instead of focusing more on the bond between the two of them through dialogue and scenes. We never know how they met and how their bond/relationship is different/set apart from others. Jewelry given to Kay is almost trite. A nice, generous gesture, but one she spends way too much time on! I want to know the real Richard and Kay -- see them interact through dialogue during a visit to see the oncologist. How do they support one another in that situation? I wanted more showing and less telling from the author. The insight Kay details toward the end of the book is quite fascinating given her own experiences and scientific background. I wanted more of this -- the revelations re: grief and how it differs from depression and mania and how, ultimately, she got through the experience of losing her husband. (less)

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Oct 20, 2009 Callie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kay Redfield James writes very elegantly and formally. Her level of writing is far above what I've been reading lately. When I get the book in front of me, I am going to put some quotes from it in here. This is a remembrance of her husband and their marriage, before he died of cancer several years ago. I found it remarkable because I don't often read of people like this, much less know anyone like this. Completely committed to the life of the mind, devoted to science and their work as doctors, t...more Kay Redfield James writes very elegantly and formally. Her level of writing is far above what I've been reading lately. When I get the book in front of me, I am going to put some quotes from it in here. This is a remembrance of her husband and their marriage, before he died of cancer several years ago. I found it remarkable because I don't often read of people like this, much less know anyone like this. Completely committed to the life of the mind, devoted to science and their work as doctors, they are truly passionate people. They believe as purely in science and work as most people I know believe in God. I loved how much poetry she put in the book and her sentences are the kind you want to read aloud, they are so beautiful. If I were ever to write a memoir this is the kind I would want to write--one that leaves you feeling uplifted, inspired, warmed, enriched, but not because of easy answers. Because of her husband's illness and her own struggle with mental illness, they have seen their share of darkness. This memoir is not self-pitying, nor complaining. Neither is it inordinately confessional. It feels restrained and thoughtful, an act of love. Just read it, already.

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It was early June 2002. The foxglove was high in our front garden and the honeysuckle was climbing every which way over the stone walls. I picked armfuls of pink and white peonies and put them in the bedroom. Never, in seventeen summers with Richard, had I seen so many butterflies as there were now, in this early June. I tried to catch a small white one to keep Richard company, but I couldn't keep up with it. An, as Richard said, I shouldn't have tried. The butterfly ought to be free to fly in the garden.

He said this without envy or regret.

This is something she quoted from Robert Louis Stevenson:
"We may compare the headlong course of our years to a swift torrent in which a man is carried away. We have no more than glimpses and touches; we are torn away from our theories; we are spun round and round and shown this or the other view of life, until only fools or knaves can hold to their opinions. We take a sight at a condition in life, and say we have studied it; our most elaborate view is no more than an impression."

One morning--during the early weeks, when I still spoke aloud to him--I said , "I missed you, sweetheart, when it rained so hard last night. I missed you this morning, when it was no longer raining. I missed you, wondering if the rain would begin again."(less)

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Jan 06, 2011 Andrew rated it 2 of 5 stars

I have very mixed feelings about this book. It is always honest and consistently powerful in its raw description of Kay's shifting emotions. But I often felt as if there was a failure -- whether conscious or not -- to situate the events within any context outside of Kay and Richard. Your average reader, e.g., me, is thus left rather disconnected from the circles in which the couple traveled. Plainly, a book of this sort is written as a form of cathartic therapy (as Kay herself states in the clos...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Shonna Froebel rated it 4 of 5 stars

This memoir is a very intimate look at Jamison's life with her late husband Richard. She talks of her own struggles with bipolar disorder and how her husband helped find a way for the two of them to cope with it by applying his scientific mind and methods to it.
She talks frankly about their relationship, how it began and how it progressed, and how much they shared with each other.
She also talks about their struggles with Richard's battles against cancer, how they coped and how their friends help...more

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Jan 01, 2011 Ed Smiley rated it 3 of 5 stars

I picked this up at the library, thinking that this was her earlier work on the experiences of an intelligent insightful person learning to deal with severe bipolar disorder, and actually finding a fulfilling life of considerable accomplishment.

I had skimmed parts of that book at a bookstore, and had gotten interested in her life.

This turned out to be a memoir of her life with her husband who fought, and lost, to fatal illness. He always helped her monitor her moods and keep to her program of m...more

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Jun 11, 2013 Debora Harding rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have been a real fan of Jamison's so was eager, after the death of my son, to read her own personal account of grief. Next to other grief literature, as personal memoir, it falls short of the greats - Didion, C.S. Lewis, Wolterstoff. (the fact that I would expect it however, is quite something).

As a comparative objective treatment grief and depression, it isn't complete enough to leave me feeling the subject was fully explored. Its a hard balance - to take something as personal and painful as...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Anna rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was looking for a book on grief, and this disappointed me. I preferred Meghan O'Rourke's The Long Goodbye: more beautiful, more insightful, more relatable (for me). This book was mostly an account of Jamison's husband's battle with cancer and a glowing report of how great he was. And what beautiful jewelry he bought her. And how their friends who were cancer researchers at top medical institutes gave them cutting-edge medical advice and bred a pack of lab rats with his cancer cells in them (no...more

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May 30, 2010 Jennifer Campaniolo rated it 4 of 5 stars

I thought Kay Redfield Jamison was very brave to write so openly and eloquently about being a doctor of manic depressives who was herself suffering from the disease in her book An Unquiet Mind. I was curious about how she was doing and though the subject of her latest book, Nothing Was the Same, sounded depressing--it's about her husband's cancer diagnosis and death--I still wanted to read it. And it was sad (and not the ideal reading choice for Memorial Day Weekend!) But it was also a beautiful...more

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Nov 08, 2009 Melissa rated it 2 of 5 stars

A beautiful memoir of a marriage, but Jamison only partly delivers on her promise to compare grief (after her husband dies) with depression (which she did not suffer, after a lifetime battling bipolar disorder).

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Jan 31, 2010 Isa rated it 4 of 5 stars

There's no doubt in my mind Kay Redfield Jamison is a brilliant woman - a clinical psychologist who teaches at Johns Hopkins and who is well-versed in classic literature. Her first book, An Unquiet Mind, really changed the way I thought about mental illness because Jamison was able to talk about the facts of the disease as well as her personal experience of it.

This book offers a view of her later life, where her episodes are less frequent and brought into focus by her husband, who also suffers f...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Tracy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was not her best book. I read it because I have enjoyed many of her other books. I suppose it was a wonderful summary of grief, and it well distinguishes grief from depression. I suspect that after nursing her husband, a true scientist in spirit as she describes him, through illness, she wants to thanks many medical professionals. But she includes so many high profile doctors that it seems after a while that she is name dropping. She seems to have no concept of how medical care works for th...more

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Jun 30, 2011 Karan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: owned

"The advice I took most to heart, however, was from a friend of mine, a poet, who spoke of the futility of advice. 'I've always handled similar emergencies very badly by working and drinking myself into states of stupor and desolation,' he wrote. 'If I say that I think it's probably best to get out and about then I know I haven't a leg to stand on. I'll excuse myself from my own worthless advice by saying Everyone's Different. I'm thinkg of you, and hoping you're all right.' I wasn't all right,...more

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May 29, 2011 Sridatta rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, non-fiction, memoir

I don't mean to be insensitive but this is not a good book. It was almost as if she couldn't care to make us care for her. It was touching at times, there was clearly stuff to be learnt from her experiences but she went on and on writing about the same stuff again and again. And the reason why I picked this book in the first place also might be the reason why I didn't like it. I started reading it so as to know about her understanding of grief in a way she talks about depression but she allotted...more

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Jan 09, 2010 Janet rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Janet by: radio

Shelves: nonfiction

I was pulled into this book after hearing Ms. Jamison interviewed on the radio. I was emotionally stirred reading the early chapters about her husband. I skimmed the middle part that chronicled his illness and eventual death, and focused my attention again on the final chapters, in which she describes differences between experiencing grief and depression. Her writing is intelligent and graceful, with many literary references. This is a beautiful book, but I need to read what I haven’t yet: An Un...more

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May 23, 2009 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars

The benchmark for books on grieving is set with The Year of Magical Thinking and while Nothing Was the Same can't match Didion, it is on its own a terrific book. I don't know that I could relate to the intensity of her marriage the way I could to Didion; however, parsing through the distinctions between depression and grief. To me, that was the most valuable aspect of this book. The recognition that grief does lift and that it serves a purpose. It also is not something we should necessary wish a...more

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Aug 17, 2011 Nina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Nothing Was the Same is Jamison’s account of her husband’s illness, death, and her subsequent struggle to differentiate grief from depression. She brings the same lyrical quality to this book that was evident in An Unquiet Mind.

Jamison’s writing is honest, introspective, and transcendent. She opens her soul to the reader, invites us in so that we may learn and grow from her experience of loss. She shares intimate details of her marriage, her own mental illness, and her husband’s death from canc...more

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Jan 23, 2010 Tori rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2010, read-in-my-30s, relationships, bipolar, cancer, depression, grief

I enjoy reading Kay Redfield Jamison's books. More than a book about her husband dying of cancer I felt like this one was a book about a great, true love. I think doctors are too eager to prescribe medicine for grief, and I really appreciated Kay's description of the differences between grief and depression. I felt this information meant even more coming from a psychiatrist who had felt deep dark depressions herself. The subject sounds like a downer, but I felt like this was a book about hope an...more

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May 10, 2010 Karen Armstrong rated it 5 of 5 stars

Nothing was the same" by Kay Redfield Jamison (2009)
"he loved in me what I had forgotten was there." - p. 4
"To Kay, without whom I would not be." p. 103
"leader of the band of rabbits in WAtership Down. When Hazel died, he simply left his body on the edge of a ditch and then ran off, free of his tiredness, through the woods, and into a field of primrose." - p. 122"
"We know love makes a difference and we send love" -p.140
In grief, death occasions the pain? In depression, death is the solution to t...more

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Dec 03, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars

While this book was very well written, something about it bothered me. It did not feel inspired and felt almost self-serving. To me, a memoir should either illuminate a previously unknown subject (and I think it would be hard to argue that anyone reading this book is unfamiliar with grief) or to show a common thread through a potentially uncommon story. Maybe it is because I have never had such a relationship or have never experienced the loss of someone so integral to my daily life, but I did n...more

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Dec 17, 2011 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: psychiatry-and-psychology

A very poignant description of a loving relationship and the grief that follows the loss of a spouse. I expect Jamison to get into a discussion of her grieving process sooner, but the majority of the memoir foreshadows the grieving with a careful description of the relationship that preceded it. I think this description was necessary to appreciate the grieving, though I was expecting to read more about the grieving than the romantic description of their marriage, but the balance was more tipped...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Anna rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book didn't affect me the way other books about grief have. I am thinking specifically about Joan Didion's books about grieving, or stuff CS Lewis has written, etc. This was a good book, I especially found the firsthand account of the differences between grief and depression interesting, but the writing style didn't make me FEEL the author's experience the way a really good book can. However, I'm sure some people found the year of magical thinking (Joan Didion) hard to relate to, or maybe t...more

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Jan 13, 2010 Gloria rated it 4 of 5 stars

After reading this book, I thought that it was not as good as Jamison's well-known book, Unquiet Mind. Unquiet Mind is about her experiences as a bi-polar person. Nothing was the Same is about her very exceptional relationship with her husband. At first, I thought the language could have been more expressive for the depths of her relationship with her husband. But as time elapsed, I began to appreciate her writing and think about the wonderful relationship she had with her husband...despite her...more

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May 21, 2010 Jim rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: sanity, dogs, differently-abled, death, reference

if you live w/or are thinking of living w/someone who has "an unquiet mind" read this book, i'm only a couple chapters in and it os amazing. this is a beautiful warning and strong affirmation for people loving the mentally ill. and it is also strong in saying that it can be safe/good for the mentally ill to love.
Jamison, like william styron, is a gift, she knows how to put words where others only know pain.

man, is this tough to read. it is about Jamison's husband, you know he is going to die but...more

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Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.

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