On top of that, she’s accepted a contract to write a book about happiness, but she hasn’t been able to write it. No doctor so far has been able to diagnose her-one test suggests that it may be an autoimmune condition called Sjogren syndrome, but the results aren’t conclusive. She’s also suffering from a mysterious illness that causes painful rashes, muscle tremors and weakness, and a variety of other symptoms. Lori eventually reveals that she has more problems than just the breakup. Instead, over many sessions, Wendell coaxes out the deeper issues Lori is facing: the fear of death and the search for meaning in her life. At first she tries to cast her ex in as bad a light as possible, hoping Wendell will confirm that he’s a bad person and Lori was deeply wronged. Lori ends up seeing an eccentric therapist named Wendell Bronson. She finally seeks out a therapist for, she thinks, a few weeks of crisis management in order to get back on her feet. She’s suffering from anxiety and forgetfulness, and she’s obsessing over her ex, even going so far as to stalk him on Google and social media. Lori is in her 40s and wonders whether she’ll ever be able to find another romantic partner.Īt first Lori tries to tough it out, but after a couple of weeks, she realizes that she’s not recovering.
She had planned to spend the rest of her life with this person, and now she’s grieving not only the relationship, but also the life she thought she’d have.
The problem, according to him, is that Lori has a young son and he doesn’t want to live with a kid in the house anymore-his own children are older and will be leaving for college soon. The story begins with Lori getting dumped by her boyfriend. Lori’s own story is interwoven with the stories of some of her patients, all of which relate to Lori’s issues in some way. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is a memoir by Lori Gottlieb, an author and therapist, about a particularly difficult time in her life-a time when she sought out therapy herself-and common struggles that people have. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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