Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

72 reviews

katewhite77's review

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

5.0

One of the most moving books I've ever read

About life death, love and the therapists in between. 

I would recommend this book to anyone curious about or suspicious about the thereputic process as this very funny and extremely moving memoir gives a fascinating insight from both sides of the couch. 

As humans we are all frail but we can be so resistant too. This book shows us how.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Grief, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Child death

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

lbelow's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Mental illness, Cursing, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Cancer, Death, Grief, and Miscarriage

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

this book made me experience the full spectrum of human emotion. still sad over some things in it!!! it is a really good book that illustrates how we as humans are so much more than the versions of ourselves that we choose to show and that we all have trauma, we all have good and bad sides, and there are things we all would rather keep hidden.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Car accident, Cancer, Death of parent, and Infertility

rdenoble's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Terminal illness

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

sjanke2's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Child death, Toxic relationship, Death, Medical content, Cancer, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Grief, Miscarriage, and Panic attacks/disorders

brookeharbula's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Child death, Death, and Cancer

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Miscarriage

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