Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

35 reviews

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

2.0

This book is a behind-the-scenes look at therapy from both sides of the room. The way that Gottlieb paints a complete portrait of the profession as she experiences it is one of the most compelling aspects of the book.

Ultimately, though, I'm not sure what this book was trying to achieve. Other than the behind the scenes glimpses, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone seemed to be lacking in insight. Unlike other nonfiction that I have enjoyed reading, this book felt disingenuous and had no significant takeaways. Perhaps Gottlieb's past in television is what made her composite patients seem more like exaggerated caricatures than real people. In my opinion, that's what leant this book a consistent trite and overplayed quality. 

Furthermore, at 400 pages, this book was interminable to me. I nearly set it aside for good multiple times. I really think that it was trying to be too many things at once. It was both an autobiography of Gottlieb's life and also an exploration of therapy and the importance of connection. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone would have been much more effective if it had just been about therapy. Mixing her behind-the-scenes takes with tons of background regarding her academic and career choices felt unnecessary and self-indulgent.

I would not recommend this book. Perhaps you would like it if you are intimidated to try therapy yourself and want to know more about the experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, and Medical content

udari's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Cancer, Chronic illness, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

alyssa_simard's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

katiehuntington's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

chasewrenn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

Could not put down this book as I fell in love with each character, sympathizing and connecting to each. Only real blemish is the lack of detail of Lori’s own growth, which is only noticeable in comparison to that of her patients 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

theremightbecupcakes's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I so almost cried at work

I dont remember the exact quote, but she was talking to julie about time travel and they said that theyd never travel to the future because thats where the hope is and if you go to the future the mystery of hope disappears

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

belle2008's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Chronic illness

jessiel's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Grief, Infertility, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Violence

frankie_reads2's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness