Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

121 reviews

tnociti's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, and Car accident

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

meemawreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Lord-a-mercy, y’all, this one took me a while to finish! Largely because it was only available as an e-book and I hate loathe and despise reading on my phone, but also because it was a tough read. At one point, I got so introspective about my own mortality that I dissociated and had to nap to recover 😳 It made me cry in public (twice) and many more times in private. I’ll go ahead and tell ya, this was a five-tater read.
I came to know of Lori Gottlieb through reading her “Dear Therapist” column in The Atlantic. I always appreciated her insights so when I learned she also has a podcast AND this book, I jumped on both. This book is partially memoir, partially an anonymous mosaic of clients she’s mashed into unforgettable characters. You learn how she unconventionally came to the role of Therapist while getting to know these clients and their struggles; then you meet her therapist and watch her own transformation after a devastating breakup. The whole book moves chronologically to her “termination” with several clients and her own therapist, and her heartwarming quote, “In the best goodbyes, there’s always the feeling that there’s something more to say,” sticks out to me. So much of what we struggle with in life (and then go to therapy for) is loss, change, goodbyes. It can be hard to let go of relationships, experiences, anger, etc. but “we can’t have change without loss.” I learned a lot from this book and took away a new gratitude for my ability to attend therapy, and appreciation for the people who do this hard work. Having a heart is hard, sweet babies. Take care of yours. 
Like I said, 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Mental illness

ncoletti's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Miscarriage and Suicidal thoughts

sarahlovesbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death

theremightbecupcakes's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

lily1304's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.25

This is probably half self-help and only half memoir, but I still got invested in the author's story and those of the three "main character" patients. I appreciate that she lets a lay audience into the science and practice of talk therapy. For example, she explains well that a stable, boundaried relationship with a therapist and the therapist's unconditional positive regard are like, more important for a patient's success than the therapist's particular modality.

I'm interested in how the author normalizes therapy by showing how it can help people with things like grief, marital problems, or feeling "stuck" - things that basically everyone experiences at some point in their life. She briefly mentions suicidality and personality disorders, but otherwise doesn't focus on more serious, less universally relatable reasons someone might see a therapist. I hope that the de-stigmatization from stories like Gottlieb's also extends to people with more serious mental illness whom Gottlieb glosses over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse

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

_belgaldino's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

moon's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

askard's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent