Quotes About Lori Gottlieb

rules are bent with thoughtful intention, it broadens the definition of what effective treatment can be.

In the fifth century BC, however, Hippocrates noted that aromas didn't seem to be working for this malady, which he had named hysteria, from the Greek word for "uterus.

If we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret

I wanted John to feel comfortable in therapy but not so comfortable that I wasn't helping him. Above all, I didn't want to fall into the trap that Buddhists call idiot compassion

No, the irony hasn't been lost on me: the happiness book has been making me miserable.

His expression is intense but gentle, a combination of a wise elder and a stuffed animal, and it comes with a message:

happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type.

hours spent surfing the internet (an activity my colleague calls "the most effective short-term nonprescription painkiller").

And once he was gone, I filled the void by Google-stalking him when I should have been writing. So many of our destructive behaviors take root in an emotional void, an emptiness that calls out for something to fill