I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: The cult hit everyone is talking about

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Though her work was far from the Broadway shows she dreamed about, it eventually became all about the nightly hustle to simply survive. As an extrovert who has never been to therapy, I wanted to tap into the world of introverts into uncharted territories, hoping to understand more, outside of myself.

For ten years, she received psychiatric treatment for dysthymia (persistent mild depression), which became the subject of her essays, and then I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, books one and two. Baek Sehee] uses months of (real) transcripts from her therapy sessions to explore her own depression and anxiety, always tiptoeing toward something like self-awareness. Aku percaya aku akan menjadi semakin bahagia jika aku semakin sering melihat ke dalam diriku sendiri. This is leading her into a rut because she feels like she can’t connect with others, as she’s hiding her true self and what she really thinks, and this then sends her into a deeper spiral because of how she feels trapped inside of herself. It is extremely insightful into a young woman’s mind, although of course, not everyone experiences the same challenges.Baek Se-hee wrote the dialogues during her sessions with a psychiatrist, and included her inner thoughts on how she wants to love herself better. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? The literal Ctrl+C of the discussions you have with your psychiatrist do not hold any literary merit, which surprises me and puts into question the validity of creative writing courses in Korea.

The world tends to focus too much on the very bright or the very dark; many of my own friends find my type of depression baffling. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. It consists of therapy sessions the author recorded and short texts on different topics between them.Ihre Gefühle kann sie gegenüber jeder Person gut verbergen und strahlt eine Gelassenheit und Leichtigkeit aus. In this candid if stilted debut, South Korean essayist Sehee documents the intensive therapy sessions that led her out of depression and anxiety. Es geht um das Ergründen der Ursachen von Gefühlen und alten Verhaltensmustern, die sie mit Hilfe der Therapie umpolen kann. Therapy, especially when this was originally published, is not something that’s considered normal in South Korea. In the end, reading this book was like experiencing someone's inner monologue: someone who's trying to figure out their own traumas and motivations, drifting from thought to thought at will.

When we're sinking in water, it can be a relief to feel the ground beneath our feet, the rock bottom, because we know we can kick against it to rise again. This book will comfort anyone who's ever been depressed, anxious, or just frustrated with themselves. Needless to say, I feel bad that I couldn’t finish because I find myself judging: why is the protagonist making a mountain out of a molehill. If you're looking for better books that are similarly related to mental health and/or therapy, I'd recommend Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (nonfiction).Maybe with cinnamon and slightly too ripe bananas, maybe with alpro chocolate milk, absolutely piping hot and thick.

Crossing those barriers between hot and cold, I forget the lukewarm boredom of life; that lukewarm state is what I fear the most. The psychiatrist prescribed her a ton of medications without explaining the reasons for doing so, side effects, expected results and even ways of seeing when the medication starts working (!I’m glad the author had a relatively easy time understanding and working through her issues, but it didn’t feel very real to me unfortunately. In a lot of her conversations with her therapist it was almost eerie how closely I could relate to it, while in others she completely confounded me. If I were to record my hypothetical sessions with a therapist or whoever, I doubt anyone would want to read transcripts of it. I'm just not the right reader for the book, which is a shame, but I can imagine someone else actually loving it a whole lot more than I did. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKPOKKI by Baek Se-hee, a memoir/self-help book.