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coleanne's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Mental illness, and Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism and Suicidal thoughts
amgarrido's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Alcohol
shelvesofivy's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Body shaming, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcohol
Minor: Sexism and Suicidal thoughts
mangofraiche's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Grief
toastyghosty13's review against another edition
4.0
This is a recording of a korean woman’s therapy sessions, where she explores different issues she is facing internally and externally. A lot of the issues she discusses with her therapist are feelings that are common but can feel like they single you out as different from others. Examples are loneliness and isolation, over analyzing relationships, and finding things you dislike about yourself while failing to change them — and then further beating yourself up over them.
The format in which this is written makes it much easier to absorb, since sometimes it can be dry content (at least for someone like me from my reading habits). The author writes about her therapy sessions in a chat style format where it shows the dialogue of her and her therapist next to the name of whoever is speaking. This absolutely helped to break up the content when trying to read about it.
Reading this book helped me to understand that some of what I feel is not that different from what a lot of others feel. It is very easy to feel like you are alone in your thoughts, especially given the last 3 years since 2020 to 2023. This book was a joy to read, and was not at all depressing considering that the entire topic of discussion is experiencing and coping with constant mild depression. On the contrary, I found this to be a very light and delightful read despite the focus on dysthymia.
I thoroughly recommend this book no matter how not-depressed of a person you are. Everyone has bad feelings, which are part of what makes us human, and this book celebrates the ability to analyze them and allow yourself to feel the shittiness.
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Minor: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
mdavis26's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Body shaming
hello_lovely13's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
booksjessreads's review against another edition
3.0
I think this was a really easy-to-read memoir and it was very fast paced, which concerned me in areas that it was so quick to get through, despite the heavy subject matter. I appreciated that each chapter was not just dialogue between the psychiatrist and the author and was broken up with an introduction and an analysis of the conversation afterwards.
Despite this though, I did also feel the memoir to be quite average. Not that this book is supposed to be astounding, groundbreaking, or full of fancy prose. However, if it hadn't been so easy to read, I would have just DNF'ed. It also just felt very samey to a lot of the mental health memoirs and fiction that is already out there. There is supposed to be a second book coming out next year, but I feel like this is better as a stand-alone, and it certainly didn't grip me enough to want to read the second one.
Overall, an average memoir, but I would suggest it as a good read for those new to translated fiction with regards to Korean society and mental health.
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
withlivjones's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Fatphobia
nikexistiertnik's review against another edition
4.25
i appreciated the psychiatrist's note, because there were moments, when their counselling irritated me - although i probably have to remember that i'm in a completely different country and therapy might just be different in germany.
my emotions are all over the place, i'm really happy i finally read it, and i'm thankful to my teacher for lending me the book.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Mental illness
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Drug use, and Emotional abuse