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

“Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.”

“Everyone has demons—big, small, old, new, quiet, loud, whatever. These shared demons are testament to the fact that we aren’t such outliers after all. And it’s with this discovery that we can create a different relationship with our demons, one in which we no longer try to reason our way out of an inconvenient inner voice.”

“No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable. We’ll talk with almost anyone about our physical health, even our sex lives, but bring up anxiety or depression or an intractable sense of grief, and the expression on the face looking back at you will probably read, Get me out of this conversation, pronto.”

“We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”