maybe you should talk to someone journal

Anger is a natural, adaptive response to threats it inspires powerful, often aggressive, feelings and behaviors, which allow us to fight and to defend ourselves when we are attacked. The instinctive, natural way to express anger is to respond aggressively. Memories of traumatic or enraging events can also trigger angry feelings. You could be angry at a specific person (such as a coworker or supervisor) or event (a traffic jam, a canceled flight), or your anger could be caused by worrying or brooding about your personal problems. Like other emotions, it is accompanied by physiological and biological changes when you get angry, your heart rate and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of your energy hormones, adrenaline, and noradrenaline.Īnger can be caused by both external and internal events. All of them made me cry and feel more connected to humanity-not in a dramatic, beach-book way, but with the grounding truth that we are all just doing our best and all capable of healing our lives.Anger is “an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage,” according to Charles Spielberger, PhD, a psychologist who specializes in the study of anger.

Gottlieb’s story is just as therapeutic to witness unfold as her patients’. But I also thought the pacing was appropriate, giving readers a realistic glimpse into the messy journey that is therapy-and the tangible benefits. I won’t call Maybe You Should Talk to Someone a page-turner, because I had no problem reading a chapter a night and putting it down. That genuine vulnerability makes for a surprisingly engaging read. This nonfiction reads like a novel, complete with a flawed but an endearing cast including Gottlieb herself, who bares far more about her personal and professional life than I expected.

If you’re curious about what actually happens in therapy, think you’re alone in your neurosis, heartbreak or trauma and need to be reminded otherwise, or intrigued by what transpires when a therapist needs therapy, then pull up a couch. But I was invited to a book reading and discussion with Lori Gottlieb, the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and she was so earnest, so lovely, so committed to her patients (who all gave permission to be included in the book) that I couldn’t help but look at the NYTs best-seller with fresh eyes. A book that seemingly sensationalizes therapy and is being turned into a television for ABC starring Eva Longoria? Well that seemed like equally a stretch for a subject matter that I take very seriously: therapy. As if I’d be selling out or fall into a 50 Shades of Gray shame spiral.

I always hesitate to read books getting all the buzz.

Maybe you should talk to someone journal