Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

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

125 reviews

tea_time's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Cancer

Moderate: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Addiction

eleanormf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Cancer

a_novi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

I recommend this book to almost everyone but especially if you have an interest in mental health or if you have ever been through trauma that made you consider therapy. I recommend this to people who work in therapy social work or healthcare. It starts off slow and you may say “why do I care about this” but when the author starts drawing parallels between her experiences with that of her patients and experiences with her therapist it’s very interesting and enlightening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Addiction, Car accident, Infertility, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Child death, and Cursing

gloria03's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Mental illness, Cancer, and Child death

chillpack's review against another edition

slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Cancer

melissafelicia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was a beautiful story about a therapist whose patients were all going through something difficult, while she herself was also going through something difficult and seeing her own therapist about it. In the end, all the stories came together beautifully. The stories were sometimes heartbreaking, but it was inspiring to see the patients grow/recover/accept/learn to love again. Ultimately, this book was about human connection and growth, mixed with interesting insights and psychology facts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Infertility, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

tracy_j's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It took me awhile to read this book but that's because I was absorbing so much. I think therapy is so valuable and Lori did an amazing job covering so many aspects of it. I could see myself reading this book again which I don't say often. 

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Content Warnings

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

melincincy23's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse

katara42's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death of parent

breanneporter's review

emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

I loved this book and basically sobbed my way through the entire last third. What a cool concept - Lori Gottlieb draws from her own personal and professional experiences as both a therapist and a patient to give readers an inside look into what a therapy process can look like from both sides of the couch. She discusses the personal situations that drove her to seek therapy and allows us to follow the journeys of several compelling patients from their first sessions with her through their moments of breakthrough/revelation. All of the characters felt supremely real and complicated and it felt to me like such a beautiful gift to read these stories and glimpse these lives and these emotions and motivations. This book is very emotional - I’m not kidding that I bawled my eyes out - but it’s also so thought provoking and reflective and insightful. 

Lori has a distinctive writing voice and a way of ending every chapter with a lesson or a cliffhanger that took some getting used to, for me, but overall I liked the short digestible chapters and how the story flowed and how she slowly revealed more to the reader, never rushing for us understand faster than we needed to. I struggled a bit to finish around the middle, which knocked it down a bit from a 5, but I wonder if I had read it via audio (instead of digital) if it would have been a 5. Either way, I don’t think everyone would enjoy this but I would recommend to anyone interested in the human condition, in therapy, in a unique kind of memoir, in a book that makes them reflect on themselves and their pasts and their attitudes toward living. Thank you Lori, for ditching that last contract so you could write this instead!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Cancer, and Child death