Paula Nguyen’s Reviews > Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed > Status Update

uh wow? what an experience 😳 the narrator for the audiobook was so good and I got so attached to the patients; their growth was kind of inspiring and their “journey” was moving; lori’s experience with her own therapist was slow moving but you could see her change overtime and in the end it was really satisfying to see all these real people with happy endings; 4.75/5 stars

when she said men feel pressure from society to keep up their emotional appearance and women feel pressure from society to keep up their physical appearance 🤔

so Lori tried to write a book about how people try too hard to make themselves happy; happiness research from scientists said happiness depends on whether things go better than expected; happiness = reality - expectations; so you can make people happy by telling them bad news then taking it back

first book I’ve planned listening to on just audio and I already like it more than the other memoir/nonfiction I read (which I should have given 3 stars instead of 4 tbh) I didn’t expect the therapist to talk about her personal life so much but it makes her seem more human and it makes the story a lot more valuable in general