I really enjoyed this book. Dr. Susanna Seliger is an expert in her field which extremely hard to treat depression. She protects herself by not sharing her own feelings. This is her defense from falling apart herself. But she opens herself to her client, Jim. She finally gives in and tells about her brother who she always wondered if she could have saved from his depression.

This book is so very easy for me to relate to. My whole family has had depression in one form or another and I have also lost my brother to it. Amy Koppleman know depression. She knows that there are times when other are talking about mundane things and you are wondering about things that you can’t talk about at least at that time. She knows the deep, deep wound that never quite heals, the anger, the grief and the feeling of being left, the memories that slide in and out of your life, most of all the pain.

I didn’t want to lay this book down. It is not a book that goes from the past to the present, instead it jumps around. But that is how our lives are. Something will trigger a memory and if we can will stay with it and either feel the joy or the pain.

I received this finished copy of Hesitation Wounds from the publisher as a win from FirstReads but that in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings in this review. ( )