That is a valid point. Everyone's experience is different. But Nora felt so hollow to me as a character. There wasn't anything else to her. She didn't feel like a real person to me. The ending bothered me too, that all you need to feel better is to realise that you should be happy with what you have. That the life you're in now (or her "root" life) is the best one. You can help yourself in lots of ways to manage depression, but it's s an illness, not a state of mind that can be shifted with meaningless motivational quotes.

I feel you! As I've got older the physical symptoms vary so much. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm coming down with a cold, or my back will hurt, or I'll get a bad stomach...so it could be loads of other things going on.

The emotional side has got so much worse in the last few years. Anxious, fragile, exhausted, vulnerable...gah!

This is me every month, weeping into the washing up bowl, contemplating the utter futility of my life, then..."aaahhh yeah! That's why!"

I hated it. I don't get how someone that has been so open about their own depression can write a book that seems to understand it so little. I found it poorly written and boring. I love the idea of multiverses, and this was such a wasted opportunity to say something really meaningful about our choices, regrets and how much free will we really (don't?) have.