Lori Gottlieb Has Seen All Possible Sides of Therapy

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Having experienced therapy as a patient, a student, and an actual therapist, Lori Gottlieb has a lot of insight into what therapy is, what it isn't, and how to get the most out of it. We hear how she ended up in the profession after repeatedly putting a UPS guy in an uncomfortable spot and how, years later, she needed more therapy herself when her world fell out from under her.

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0:00.0	When you go to a talk therapy session, there are two chairs.
0:20.0	Most of the time, every therapist I've been to certainly, you can pick the chair you want,
0:25.0	usually, and the therapist takes the other one.
0:27.0	In this episode, I'm talking to a person who sits in both chairs at different times.
0:33.0	It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe.
0:37.0	I'm Lori Gottlieb. I'm a psychotherapist and the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
0:43.0	and I am in the NPR studios in Los Angeles.
0:47.0	Lori Gottlieb's book has sold a lot of copies.
0:51.0	People like to hear what a therapist is thinking beyond the empathetic facial expression and probing open questions.
0:58.0	What I loved about it is that it brings home the idea that therapy is ultimately about people connecting to try to figure things out.
1:06.0	The two people have their roles, client and practitioner, but it's a collaboration.
1:12.0	Lori says that for her, mental health and it not being quite right goes way back.
1:19.0	When I was younger, I struggled a lot.
1:23.0	I didn't realize that I was depressed when I was younger.
1:29.0	I just thought, I'm moody or I was difficult.
1:36.0	But I was depressed a lot.
1:39.0	But I was a very functional, depressed person.
1:43.0	I think that's why people didn't realize that I was depressed in the sense that I functioned very well.
1:50.0	I was involved in things at school. I did very well in school. I had friends.
1:56.0	I think that it was really an internal experience of being depressed.
2:01.0	Did you know when you were younger that this is depression?
2:04.0	Or did you just think this is what being alive feels like?
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