A review by onetrooluff
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

3.0

Noooooooope nope nope. Noping out of this one at about 310 pages. This was a book club read, and not something I would have picked up on my own. The first half was interesting and fairly engaging. But once it got into the depths of her patients' stories - loss of a child, death due to illness - it got way too intense for me. I found I was getting really upset, and not only that, it played straight into my anxiety. I started panicking a bit that I was going to start thinking about "what if these things happened to my family" and that is a recipe for weeks of misery. I actually cried telling my husband how miserable this book was making me.

So, I'm not saying it is a bad book. The foibles of the author and the various patients and their unwillingness to make change or progress got frustrating sometimes (as I'm sure it does to the therapists). The writing is nice and smooth, and it mostly kept my interest even though this was a book I had no interest in to start with.

It's just not for me, and my personal hot buttons, as it were.