Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

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

73 reviews

thenovelmaura's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

This was one of my 12 recommendations from 12 friends for the year 2022, and I'm glad my friend Jenn pushed me out of my comfort zone with this one! I remember all of the hype surrounding this book when it was released in 2019; so many of my friends loved this book and I felt a lot of pressure to enjoy it, too.

I'm of two minds when it comes to this rating (maybe it's too low?), but I didn't really like the sections about the author, which is a terrible thing to say about a memoir, I guess. All of her patients were so interesting and their therapy sessions were so thought-provoking; I loved reading those chapters and was always disappointed when the story went back to Gottlieb. There was a lot of unaddressed privilege in the narrative she told about herself, from the ease with which she found a therapist when she needed one to the way she left a well-paying job in television to attend medical school (before dropping out of medical school entirely).

On the other hand, the rest of the book was engrossing and had so many amazing tidbits about love, forgiveness, and living life to the fullest. I do see how this could encourage people to start therapy if they were previously on the fence about doing so. And I'm all for stories that normalize mental health issues and ways that we can cope with the difficulties in our lives. The psychology minor in me wants to give this 4 stars but the English major in me pulled it down to 3, so make of that what you will!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism and Suicidal thoughts

stories's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

An insightful and engaging read. Beautifully interwoven stories. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Car accident

lawsam's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

It took me a while to get into but I really loved it when I did. A really beautiful story of a therapist and her experience in that role, as well as being in therapy herself, including some really interesting and emotional case studies of clients. 

I thought there was a perfect balance between some really emotional accounts and funny anecdotes. The whole tone and narration just felt so genuine, and I really loved getting to know the 'characters' and routing for them, as well as the author herself. Loved Wendel, bless him, and Sam the delivery guy warmed my heart.

Big recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Abandonment

jesselopod's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Beautiful and introspective, I really enjoyed how the book reflected my own experiences with therapy. The audiobook was a particularly moving listen. The author has a really great story telling quality that made it hard to stop listening to. It was one of those “I cringed, I laughed, I cried,” experiences, raw and capturing the essence of what it means to be human, and to go through the process of being vulnerable while trying to improve yourself with a stranger. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

jojo_'s review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Misogyny

yeojinqueen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

udari's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

laurenzott's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Car accident, and Death of parent

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, Child abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident