Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

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

34 reviews

rosies_book_shelf's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Addiction, and Alcoholism

bookhead420's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Child death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Addiction

headinthepages's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Chronic illness, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Abandonment, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, Child death, Infidelity, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

kimveach's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I had heard that this book was good, but I didn't realize how good it was.  It's more than a memoir.  In the book, the author explains her issues and how she worked them out during therapy and her patients' therapies.  She also introduces many psychology concepts in a much more interesting way than a Psychology 101 class.  Be warned:  the terminally ill young woman she works with until her death is life-affirming and heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Addiction, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Medical content, Stalking, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

haleywofford's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Miscarriage, Grief, Death, Cursing, Addiction, Abortion, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Alcoholism

stories's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

An insightful and engaging read. Beautifully interwoven stories. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Addiction

ivana's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

It took me a while to get into but I really loved it when I did. A really beautiful story of a therapist and her experience in that role, as well as being in therapy herself, including some really interesting and emotional case studies of clients. 

I thought there was a perfect balance between some really emotional accounts and funny anecdotes. The whole tone and narration just felt so genuine, and I really loved getting to know the 'characters' and routing for them, as well as the author herself. Loved Wendel, bless him, and Sam the delivery guy warmed my heart.

Big recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Abandonment

jojo_'s review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Death, Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Misogyny

yeojinqueen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, Suicide, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Dementia, and Physical abuse