Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

68 reviews

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

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

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

michelle_het's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

sloanefg's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness and Car accident

Minor: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

poppymopey's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, and 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

caitlinww's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Fatphobia, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

frankie_reads2's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

kirareads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Miscarriage