I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki opens Goodreads in a new tab
Baek Se-hee
A successful young social media director begins seeing a psychiatrist about her depression. She feels persistently low, anxious and self-doubting, yet hides it well at work and with friends. The effort of performing calm keeps her from forming deep relationships. The title captures the central paradox: despite hopelessness, she can always summon a desire for her favorite street food, tteokbokki. Recording twelve weeks of conversations with her psychiatrist, part memoir and part self-help, she disentangles her cycles of self-abuse.
- Edition
- BLOOMSBURY
- Genre
- Non-Fiction
- Format
- Physical
- Pages
- 194
My thoughts
4.5 ⭐️ rounded down like everyone else this book caught my attention cause of the title (hard relate but for kadhi chawal maybe) but i am glad i ended up liking it so much. i am no mental health professional and while i can see why in their professional opinion this might not be the best book out there in this genre, but as some common person who is scared of therapy this book did work very well for me. like the author also says in the end that there is NO conclusive end here and that therapy is constant work and even someone who might think they are doing so much better now can have moments that may feel like they are back to square one. another reason i really liked this book was because i have thoughts very similar to those of the author’s and the whole time i was annotating this book all i wrote was some version of “omg, literally me!” some people have mentioned other similar books in reviews here and there is a part 2 to this book too, i will definitely be getting to all of them very soon
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