Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

113 reviews

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

jackeline_cruz_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Cancer, Child death, and Death

Minor: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

TW Minor: negligence

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 against another edition

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

killeenm's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

This book was really well written, and I couldn’t put it down. I found the stories of patients, particularly Julie, deeply moving. I didn’t always love how technical the psychotherapy theory got, but I suppose I should expect that from a psychotherapist. Overall it was a book that prompted reflection on life and love and how to do both well, and that’s worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Suicide

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

orchidd's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Car accident, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Sexism

wardenred's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

 

What makes therapy challenging is that it requires people to see themselves in ways they normally choose not to. A therapist will hold up the mirror in the most compassionate way possible, but it’s up to the patient to take a good look at that reflection, to stare back at it and say, “Oh, isn’t that interesting! Now what?” instead of turning away.

This is definitely the sort of book that leaves a lasting impression. On one hand, I can't say I've learned anything profoundly new; I've been in therapy for a long time, and I've been interested in the matters of psychology and mental health since my late teens. On the other hand, there were plenty of little moments that made me reexamine the familiar things from brand-new angles and arrive to new conclusions. It was also really interesting to see therapy sessions unfold from the other side of the coach, and to see a therapist as a patient. 

I absolutely loved the way the narrative unfolded, too; how both Lori and her clients came in with relatively small-scale problems, for the most part, then dug deeper into the large-scale ones hiding underneath, and then arrived into proper existential crises—and figured out their paths through those, one way or another. The book is filled with relentless compassion, kindness, and humanity, and it left me with a strong reminder that if a problem doesn't seem solvable, perhaps you're solving the wrong problem. Or at the very least, perhaps there are other problems you can solve that will make the big central thing easier to live with and change your perception of it.

In a way, I picked up this book because I'm going through a hard time and I wanted more tools to figure out my pain and the methods of dealing with it. I can't say it worked—which isn't surprising, I was just reading a book about people whose problems aren't just like mine, I wasn't sitting in front of a therapist. But it definitely has given me more tools to poke at my pain with while I wait until I can afford therapy again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Child death and Car accident

asherport's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Death