Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

63 reviews

epellicci's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Incredibly listenable, what makes Maybe You Should Talk to Someone different is that it is presented mostly through Lori’s relationship with her own therapist – Wendall. In this way it stands out from the traditional use of patient case studies to explore the profession. I loved the insight provided by Lori’s conversations with friends, her patients and Wendall, and the nuance this brought to the book. She does a fantastic job of balancing herself as a practitioner and as a human being, at times deeply affected by the lives of those she sees. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is warm and funny as well as full of grief and quiet moments of comfort. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Child death and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

cturn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Child death, Car accident, Death, and Cancer

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Suicide

katewhite77's review against another edition

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

velsbooknook's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad

 I was so intrigued by this book! A therapist needs a therapist after a life changing event. I know Lori also just is a normal human being like me and you, but it gave such an interesting point of view to therapy. 
First of all I listened to the audiobook and the narrator, Brittany Pressley did a phenomenal job. It was so easy to follow and while this book sometimes got very dark and heavy it was still very enjoyable to follow. 
I loved Lori's growth throughout the book and it was so exciting to read her thoughts and feelings. The work she did with her patients was inspiring and I very much enjoyed the way she interacted with and cared for them. John and Julie have a special place in my heart and I loved to follow their storylines so much, even though I shed some tears here and there.
The sessions with her therapist Wendell also were so incredibly well done, I simply loved all characters and their stories. 
This book was interesting, beautiful, inspiring and sad. I went to therapy last summer and while listening to the audiobook I realised how much it helped me. I was just talking to my husband yesterday that my therapist gave me the necessary tools to help with my anxiety and I'm doing so good right now. 
I feel like that is a book I maybe want to get a physical copy of someday and reread because there is so much knowledge and beauty in those pages. If you like this kind of memoir I highly recommend picking it up! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Cancer, and Miscarriage

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

julietagmza's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Infertility, and Cancer

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 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