Nothing Was the Same: A memoir

by kay Redfield Jamison

Written by Kay Redfield Jamison, "the clinical psychologist whose widely acclaimed 1995 memoir, "An Unquiet Mind," revealed her lifelong struggle with manic-depressive illness. "Nothing Was the Same" is the story of her marriage to the late Richard Wyatt, a man who overcame severe childhood dyslexia to become a leader in schizophrenia research." It is a story of "true love" that saw the couple through her mental illness and his cancer and ultimate death. The best writing is in the chapter "Mourning and Melancholia" that compares grief and depression. The penetrating insights, gained from first-hand experience, were written so beautifully that I could not help but sighed deeply and frequently.

Nothing Was the Same: A memoir