Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

33 reviews

mheiling's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Toxic friendship and Suicidal thoughts

maggies's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

This is fascinating - a glimpse into the author’s therapy journey, with transcripts of sessions with her therapist. I could see a lot of my own experiences in these conversations, and I feel it’s an accurate representation of what therapy is like. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Bullying

dlsmk's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

3.5 stars

Better than I thought. I read it in about one day!

I really related to Se-hee at times and it is always nice to feel seen. What I really liked was this just bringing back memories of sessions with my own therapist.

I didn't like how the front had the mix of essays and transcripts but then it abruptly stopped and only had essays at the end. I wish it was more evenly spaced out. I am not sure if all the essays at the end were added in the translated version or later releases. I would like to know.

If you like memoirs and have been a 20-something year old woman with low self esteem you may like this. To be honest I find Se-hee including parts about herself that I didn't really like made the book feel more honest. Not like we have to fully like someone to like their book. Kinda the whole point and weird if you feel like you have to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Classism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Sexism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Eating disorder and Racism

myeonmae's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Bullying, and Racism

naomi_k's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Classism, Bullying, and Sexism

cooper_reads_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Body shaming, Dysphoria, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Domestic abuse

leif's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Body shaming, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Classism

Therapy sessions are included so lots of sensitive topics are discussed but it all seemed really sensitively handled to me.

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

i really loved the first 50-75 pages of this. it was so relatable and comforting to see someone struggle with similar things. however, i felt like in the late middle and end it got very muddled and repetitive. i felt like the original point of the book was lost in the last 30ish pages. they were not unenjoyable, they just didn't seem to pertain to the point of the book which lowered my initial 5 star rating

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Grief, and Mental illness

whatannikareads's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.0

i was sooooo close to giving this book a 2.5-2.75 but the back half reflections saved it and so i’m giving it a 3.25. i found the transcripts of the therapy sessions and the brief reflections afterwards to be dry. you obviously lose the nuance of body language and tone from a real conversation, and so at times she just came across as unlikable and repetitive, and i understand that’s partially why she went to therapy in the first place.

it was just fine, mostly eh but everything from the epilogue onward sparkled. NOW i can see why the book is so popular. she has such a way with words when she really gets deep into each transcript’s central thesis. even the note from her therapist was really great. so the back half balanced out the front half for me.

actually i’m demoting it to a 3 because of the bit of fatphobia in there 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria