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I listened to this on audiobook. I have so much respect for anyone who speaks openly and honestly about their mental health issues, especially women. This is really about a woman coping with the loss of her therapist—someone who had been instrumental in her mental health and who had helped her refrain from self-harm.
I had a bit of a hard time relating to this narrator. As someone who deals with mental health issues myself and works as a therapist, I’m always hoping to feel connected to and vali ...more
I had a bit of a hard time relating to this narrator. As someone who deals with mental health issues myself and works as a therapist, I’m always hoping to feel connected to and vali ...more
I wanted to like this book more than I did. The way she writes about her psychological problems make them seem less than a real disease and more like an exercise in narcissism. Throughout the book I kept wondering how she was attracting the various men in her life because she seems so hopelessly self-absorbed. If she meant this as a salute to her psychiatrist, she failed by inserting her compulsive thoughts about herself into every discussion about what a great man he was. Reading comments about
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