Lori Gottlieb: About 13% of people are seeing a therapist somewhere in the United States. She says that stigma is changing, but there is still a stigma around therapy. "People don't end up getting help until they're experiencing the equivalent of an emotional heart attack"
In Lori Gottlieb's new book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, she opens with a quote from James Baldwin that reads, "Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
In this episode, we talk about therapy, how it works, the misconceptions around it, and how people go from resisting change to embracing the behaviors required to alter their own thoughts and feelings when stuck in destructive, unhealthy loops. You'll also learn the difference between idiot compassion and wise compassion.
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