Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

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

70 reviews

janewa's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Body shaming

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

kartoffel_00's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

From an objectively lense this isn't really a masterpiece or anything. But what this book definitely is, is that it's honest and comforting. 

Its vivid and repetitive just like the state of a mind dealing with depression and anxiety. 

Just like the author mentions in one of the essays how they hate being told to cheer up and would rather someone listen to them and empathise, reading this book I felt that someone could empathise with my struggles too. 

My only regret with the book is that I could have read it slower to take things in more properly but as I connected with the subject matter a lot that proved a struggle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

Extremely, extremely brief mention of

domestic abuse, toxic family members and homophobia

sigreads_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

hopefulockey's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Great narrator! Very relaxing listen

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Bullying, Classism, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Eating disorder

Minor: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

giuliawanders's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I was inspired by how much the author opens up in this book.
I also thought it was really interesting to delve into the mind of someone who I don’t relate much to and to see how a different culture affects mental health. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

robinks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.0

The concept was cool, but in practice, I didn’t like how the book was arranged. Each chapter was a random combination of commentary and conversation, making it hard to follow at times, and it was unclear what the timing of the sessions looked like relative to each other. Also, the last chapter suddenly switched gears into short essays, which I didn’t like. Additionally, as a therapist myself, Sehee’s therapist was giving so much advice and perspective packaged as truth that I did not agree with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Body shaming, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Eating disorder, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: War, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Lesbophobia

crushedredpepper's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Eating disorder and Alcohol

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Physical abuse

han_amey's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Eating disorder and Misogyny

I was expecting more depth to this book. Every topic they touched on which I believed could have been interesting they never delved deeper on, and the therapist in the conversations if anything seemed a bit dismissive. The writing just seemed a little lazy, because the short passages of prose were well written, but the majority of the book was just transcripts from the (poorly delivered) therapy sessions.

tlindhorst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

Written by a 20 something Korean woman about her struggles with depression & self-judgment. A helpful read for cross cultural mental health issues. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Alcohol, Mental illness, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Dysphoria

The author’s experience of domestic violence as a child is never connected to her mental health issues

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Mental illness, Bullying, Classism, and Alcohol