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By: Kay Redfield Jamison

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  • CategoryBiography & Memoir
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages224
  • Published2009
  • File size838 KB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780307265371

Key ideas from the book

  • Jamison remembers the joy and complexity of her relationship with Richard Wyatt.
  • She describes her experience of losing her husband to cancer and living with grief.
  • The memoir considers how grief differs from depression.
  • Jamison reflects on the place of bipolar illness in her life and marriage.
  • Wyatt encouraged her to write openly about mental illness and to live fully.

About Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison

In Nothing Was the Same, psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison reflects on her marriage to Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist, and the loss of her husband to cancer. She recalls the joy of their nearly twenty years together alongside the pain of his death and her long struggle with grief.

Jamison also examines the difficult distinction between grief and depression, drawing on her own experience of bipolar illness. Candid and at times lyrical, this memoir will interest readers seeking a personal account of bereavement, marriage, and the effort to live fully after loss.

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