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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
35 reviews
lqne's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia
Minor: Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, and Sexism
danimcthomas's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Body shaming, and Physical abuse
The whole of this book discusses severe mental health issues. Avoid if that’s a trigger for you.courtofsmutandstuff's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Eating disorder and Body shaming
gossameralbum's review against another edition
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Body shaming
Minor: Toxic friendship
marcelaibarra's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Eating disorder
chireadsandchill's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Suicide, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
yuzu_149's review against another edition
4.0
The writing is not always polished, and the thoughts expressed sometimes sound convoluted and contradictory. But then isn't that what makes us all human? When we get anxious, stressed or just don't feel well, that's how our thoughts are - when I journal, I also feel like I'm trying to find clarity through a huge fog of jumbled up feelings and emotions.
It felt comforting to read her struggles because I also struggled with similar things. And I found myself highlighting a lot throughout the book - it can be a relief to read and find the words that describe what I've felt a lot of the times. The state where you feel anxious, down and stressed out on a lot of days - and yet, it isn't exactly serious enough to take drastic action.
A paragraph from the epilogue fo the book (written by the author's therapist) sums it all up very well, "This is a record of a very ordinary, incomplete person who meets another very ordinary, incomplete person, the latter of whom happens to be a therapist. The therapist makes some mistakes and has a bit of room for improvement, but life has always been like that, which means everyone’s life – our readers included – has the potential to become better. To our readers, who are perhaps down and out from having experienced much devastation or are living day-to-day in barely contained anxiety: I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too."
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Bullying, and Eating disorder
bookedbymadeline's review against another edition
5.0
I felt so seen and understood while reading this! I plan to come back to this book often as a new comfort read, and it’s definitely a favorite for July!
This is an important book for many and I’ll be recommending it often
Graphic: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Fatphobia and Emotional abuse
Minor: Domestic abuse
nitroglycerin's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Eating disorder
watermelonquokka's review against another edition
1.25
But i still can't help but be disappointed. It may be my experience with excellent therapists that just make it difficult to read what the psychiatrist says.
But even then I feel like this is not the way to go about starting the conversation about mental health and depression. It just leaves way too many things uncommented which I find problematic. Sure, it is autobiographical, the author is still in the process of figuring their mental health out. But especially then I find it irresponsible to simply put it out into the world like that. Just as a transcript of therapy sessions.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I can't help but feel the need to share. This really wasn't it.
Moderate: Alcoholism and Eating disorder