Maybe you should talk to someone - Lori Gottlieb - Review

Lori Gottlieb is an established psychotherapist who encountered a break in relationship that overwhelmed her. She found it hard to endure the breakup and eventually took the funny option, consult a therapist for herself. In the year-long consulting process, Lori was taking therapy sessions for herself and consulted her own patients on the other side. 

During the sessions, she understands that loss tends to be multilayered, actual loss is one part of it but what the loss represents is far more critical. A solution to the loss lies in completely acknowledging it’s representation, an aspect that’s easier said than done. 

As the sessions progressed, Lori understood that the crux of many of her patients' issues happen to be reflected in her own life as well. A spark of thought that never occurred to her before undergoing therapy sessions herself.  

Overall, the book walks a respective reader through the mental construct of Lori’s patients and her own self while drawing a lot of parallel between the two. I felt the content of the book would resonate a lot more with professionals in psychotherapy while for the rest the book should appear to be a light fictional narrative.  

I have given below some of the statements that felt deep 

“Psychiatrists don’t make people happy, prescriptions do !”

“A therapist will hold up the mirror in the most compassionate manner possible but it’s upto the patient to take a good look at it and reflect”

“We have a deep yearning to understand ourselves and importantly be understood”

“Most of the worthwhile pursuits will be hard”

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” - Einstein

“Do you like me ? Can there be a more vulnerable question”

“Can’t underplay misfortune under the cover of divine plan”