Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

63 reviews

bookswithgeorgia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

alyssa_simard's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

katiehuntington's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

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

theremightbecupcakes's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

_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, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

moon's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Miscarriage

chandle5's review against another edition

funny inspiring sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Cancer

sapphic_reader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Cancer, Car accident, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Miscarriage