Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlier

BATB score: 6.7/10 🤧

a legit good book about dealing with life's struggles through psychologists-style talking-it-through: drinking problem, break-ups, unhappiness, sickness and death; yet the book's narration was long and slow

Best to: reading this book equates to 10 in-depth sessions with a therapist - congratulations, do did done; it's about the therapist, her patients, her therapist, and his patients with legit therapist comments and recommendations throughout

Best for: if you think you have problems, maybe you should talk to someone but do know that a therapist may have many more personal problems than you

Best as: I still don't believe in psychologists, sitting on couches, talking about childhood traumas that leads to today's insecurities, crying it out, feeling heard, then enlightenment tada you are a better person - a bit too softy softy for me no?

*Reader Discretion Advise* but if you think visiting a therapist can help you, please go immediately. p.s. 'therapist' also reads 'the rapist' just fun fact FYI

Best quotes: "Idiot compassion: you avoid rocking the boat to spare people's feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honestly"

“There’s a difference between pain and suffering. You’re going to have to feel pain, everyone feels pain at times, but you don’t have to suffer so much. You’re not choosing the pain but you’re choosing the suffering.”

"You know what three words are even more romantic to me than 'I love you'? ANS: 'I understand you'"

"Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them."

"We're always pretending not to know the people we know most intimately."

"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." #bookstagram