I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: the bestselling South Korean therapy memoir

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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki is a book originally written in Korean, about a woman diagnosed with dysthymia. I can see why some readers may In ihrem Inneren ist Baek ängstlich, verzweifelt und niedergeschlagen und begibt sich daher in eine Therapie, denn es kostet sie viel Kraft diese Fassade aufrechtzuerhalten.

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There are some really relatable things that she talks about, and I think she's really good at capturing some of the urgent, desperate, and irrational feelings someone has while spiraling into self-hatred/negative thinking cycles or having a panic attack, but the bulk of the book is literally just transcripts of her talking to her psychiatrist.

Even if she sometimes felt the psychiatrist understands her, she never got any constructive guidance on how to solve her problems.

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Seiten, die ich innerhalb von zwei Tagen verschlungen und dabei jede Seite mit jedem Wort aufgesogen habe. as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail 'A rareachievement' The Times 'I can't even express how much I love this book! the writing style is very blunt and straightforward which i found myself appreciating (for this topic) but i lost interest over halfway, for the same reason. When you're having a hard time, it's natural to feel like you're having the hardest time in the world.For ten years, she received psychiatric treatment for dysthymia (persistent mild depression), which became the subject of I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki. Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse.