188 - Coping With a Chronic Illness with Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and a New York Times Best Selling author. Her books, including Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, have been translated into 20 languages. She’s also a contributor to The Atlantic where she writes a regular column called “Dear Therapist.” She co-hosts a podcast with Guy Winch, called Dear Therapists, where they respond to listeners’ problems and walk them through therapy sessions with actionable advice. In her book, Lori talked about a mysterious illness she has. She struggled to get a diagnosis and treatment. So now she's talking about chronic illness and the impact it can have on well-being. She shares some actionable strategies for managing an illness and supporting someone else who has one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. We've interviewed over 100 authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and others to help you learn strategies to care for your mental health.
0:22.9	This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.
0:49.7	Okay. It's estimated that about 60% of us have a chronic illness of some kind. So if you don't have one yourself, you probably know somebody who does. Living with a chronic illness can be tough, and it can take a
0:55.7	toll on your mental health. So today I'm talking to fellow psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb about this
1:01.0	issue. Lori's been a guest on my show before where she talked about her book. Maybe you should
1:05.5	talk to someone. If you haven't read that book yet, I highly recommend it. In it, she shares her own journey
1:11.4	through therapy, as well as the journey of several of her therapy clients. Some of the things
1:16.2	Lori talks about today are how to cope with a chronic illness, how to advocate for yourself,
1:21.5	and how to help someone who might be living with a chronic illness. Make sure to stick
1:25.6	around until the end of the episode for the therapist
1:27.6	take. It's the part of the show where I'll break down some of Lori's mental strength-building
1:31.8	strategies and share how you can apply them to your own life. So here's Lori Gottlieb on how to
1:37.4	stay mentally strong when you're coping with a chronic illness. Lori Gottlieb, welcome to the
1:42.4	Very Well Mind podcast again. Oh, thanks so much, Amy.
1:45.3	It's great to be here.
1:46.7	So when we first talked to you, we talked a little bit about your first book.
1:50.5	Maybe you should talk to somebody.
1:51.7	Since then, you came out with a workbook as well.
1:53.7	How's that response, Ben, and putting a workbook out into the world?
1:57.1	Yeah, it's been great.
1:58.4	You know, when maybe you should talk to someone came out, so many people said that they had highlighted and underlined and, you know, dog-eared the pages and that they wanted to be able to take what they responded to in the book and have kind of a system to move through whatever they were going through. And when I did my TED talk about how changing your story can
2:18.4	change your life, I realized that was the workbook because that's what happened with every single
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