Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Quero morrer, mas também quero comer tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

93 reviews

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

0hannah0banana0's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia and Alcoholism

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.0

I think this was a really courageous thing to publish but the book itself is not organized very well - it's transcripts of therapy sessions and some seemingly unrelated short essays - and the psychiatrist honestly didn't seem very helpful aside from prescribing medications.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Fatphobia, Suicide, Medical content, Classism, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

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

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Alcoholism

Minor: Domestic abuse

kkulhannie's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Physical abuse

imaggienary's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Chronic illness

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: Fatphobia and Violence

luffe_zolo's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Mental illness

leighwitz's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

I adored this book. It's bite-sized and easy to follow, so I read it in one day. There is nothing profound about the author's experience or about the therapist. In fact, I was not particularly fond of the psychiatrist at all. But the normalcy of it all was exactly what made it work. This is not a story of somebody overcoming depression; it's simply a snapshot of a person living with depression. There's a simplicity and matter-of-fact attitude that resonated with me, and I liked that we got an inside view of the narrator's difficulty with beauty standards, fatphobia, etc. The ending section after the transcriptions felt a bit disjointed from the therapy transcriptions and I wasn't sure what to make of that, but I still enjoyed the writing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia and Mental illness

lqne's review against another edition

inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Minor: Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, and Sexism