Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

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

91 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

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

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.

readingpicnic's review against another edition

3.0

The author's anxieties were wayyy too similar to my own for comfort. I liked the pages of reflection in between the transcripts between her and her psychiatrist, but I wasn't a big fan of the pages of reflection at the end of the book. I think they made sense in between a different format of writing, so it was a bit disorienting for these pages of her own writing to be back-to-back in the end. I've definitely never read anything quite like this book style-wise, and it was validating to see someone so honest about their mental illnesses and anxieties that people don't really talk about.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

emotional mysterious

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

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

annabananadel's review against another edition

3.5

“The important thing here isn’t whether you are being loved, it’s how you will accept the love that comes your way.”

This is such an easy read that I definitely did enjoy but lowkey question the main character too. I mean, it was definitely explained by the psychiatrist why she's acting and feeling that way but it was too much. Although who am I to judge when I don't know what's happening inside those four walls in therapy. I did enjoy the realizations because it does answer some of the questions I have for myself or for others. What let me down is the "after therapy" part of the book. So around 40 pages of the book? It was just random stuff she's thought of that maybe had affected how she came to be. I would definitely recommend this to people who are in therapy or simply just feeling down. Just so they know that it's normal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Body shaming