Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

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

37 reviews

kirareads's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Miscarriage

maramergens's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

rumay's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Cancer, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

eleanorareads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

There was a chapter towards the end of the book, which details a conversation with a patient about an on/off sort-of-boyfriend of hers and whether he will change. Gottlieb made the suggestion, "Maybe he doesn't want to change" and it was a lightbulb reminder for me that some people do not want to change. It's something so simple and something I have known for years, but seem to had forgotten (probably for my own convenience), and that one line was enough for me to recall it and start getting my shit back together again. My bed has fresh sheets, I packed my winter clothes away, I dusted my skirting boards!!! I also scheduled some actual therapy for myself.

Long story short, it's a good book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction

christiemackie's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infertility, and Miscarriage

soppysays's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Chronic illness, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, and Eating disorder

beetsnotbombs's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Infertility, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide