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robinks's review against another edition
3.0
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
sabkapink96's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Suicide attempt
Minor: Bullying
aliyachaudhry's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Mental illness, Bullying, Classism, and Alcohol
lqne's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia
Minor: Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, and Sexism
sandramarinis's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Bullying, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Chronic illness, and Dysphoria
viviundworte's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Mental illness, Body shaming, Alcohol, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Medical content
chireadsandchill's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Suicide, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
ashleybeereads's review against another edition
Graphic: Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Alcohol
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Bullying
Minor: Suicide
yuzu_149's review against another edition
4.0
The writing is not always polished, and the thoughts expressed sometimes sound convoluted and contradictory. But then isn't that what makes us all human? When we get anxious, stressed or just don't feel well, that's how our thoughts are - when I journal, I also feel like I'm trying to find clarity through a huge fog of jumbled up feelings and emotions.
It felt comforting to read her struggles because I also struggled with similar things. And I found myself highlighting a lot throughout the book - it can be a relief to read and find the words that describe what I've felt a lot of the times. The state where you feel anxious, down and stressed out on a lot of days - and yet, it isn't exactly serious enough to take drastic action.
A paragraph from the epilogue fo the book (written by the author's therapist) sums it all up very well, "This is a record of a very ordinary, incomplete person who meets another very ordinary, incomplete person, the latter of whom happens to be a therapist. The therapist makes some mistakes and has a bit of room for improvement, but life has always been like that, which means everyone’s life – our readers included – has the potential to become better. To our readers, who are perhaps down and out from having experienced much devastation or are living day-to-day in barely contained anxiety: I hope you will listen to a certain overlooked and different voice within you. Because the human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too."
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Bullying, and Eating disorder
icarusandthesun's review against another edition
4.25
so note that my rating conveys just that - how much i identified with the author - and not necessarily how good the book was from a literary or objective point of view.
for me, this was a very insightful read.
while i couldn't relate to every single thing the author struggles with (obviously), i did find quite a few of my own problems and struggles represented.
the therapist's answers and reflections weren't life-changing in and of themselves, but the combination between them and the author's ("the patient's") conclusions made for very thought-provoking chapters and situations.
inspiring if you dare to apply all of this to your life and actually try to 'self-help'.
i do need to mention though that some aspects of the book were a little repetitive, which makes sense, obviously, because one can only have so many struggles to mention and those don't go away once you check them off of your imaginery checklist, but just wanna mention it for the sake of your reading experience.
however, since the book is only around 200 pages long, i think you should be more than fine.
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism