Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir

Nothing was the same - sequel to the author's 1995 memoir An Unquiet mind. It is a memoir of her life with her husband and her husband's loss to cancer. She also has beautifully and quite successfully charted out the distinction between grief and depression.She writes 'Grief is at heart if the human condition. Much is lost with death, but not everything...there is a grace In death. There is life.'This book serves dual purpose - her tribute to honour the love and life she shared with her husband and to describe clearly grief and how she endured loneliness and moving on with life, with her husband's memories. As she writes 'with the death of my husband, I lost many of my dreams, but not the ability to dream.'

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A very different book from Unquiet Mind but equally compelling, Although a scientist her grasp of the English language is staggering. An undoubted tearjercker which keeps you reading despite knowing how it concludes. Yet at the end she brings hope to us that few other paperbacks have done.

Very good read. Teaches about mental illnesses and is a beautiful love story. I found her explanation of grieving to be excellent.

There are dozens of books about grief, but most of them are shallow, transparent and unhelpful. These books offer hackneyed and sentimental statements that read like a greeting card, "there there, my dear". Others try to impose an imaginary structure on grief, describing it in lock-step "stages" for the reader to go through. Some even describe grief as if it were a mental illness. Anyone who has been through the loss of a beloved parent, sibling, child or spouse will find these approaches lacking if not downright annoying. Actually, the most reassuring books are those that were not written to reassure. They do not gloss over what the reader is going through and they do not try to tell the reader what to feel. This book is one of those.Jamison's book belongs in the top rank along with C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed. She is a highly literate, sensitive writer who describes the loss of her husband to cancer and how they both grieved over what was happening to them. One especially helpful chapter is on the difference between grief and depression. Dr. Jamison is a world-recognized authority on mood disorders and has also written in the past of her own struggle with manic-depressive illness. As one who has suffered true depression in the past and now is experiencing real grief, she clearly distinguishes between them. Grief may make a person feel like they are going crazy, but it is not depression or any other mental illness.Highly recommended for anyone who is trying to understand their own or someone else's grief.

A wonderful book, powerfully written from an unfortunate experience. We can learn from this work what loss is like from another persons stand point and go forward to deal with our own problems..