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

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I had one really big problem with this book and that was that Se-hee's psychiatrist gave her terrible treatment. It made me realize that reaching out for help is not a sign of weakness, but a courageous step toward getting better.

This text is essentially transcriptions of her conversations between her therapist and her, which range from a wide variety of topics.

Our version of self help isn’t the same as another country’s version, which is something we need to keep in mind, especially as we consume more books from abroad in the era of globalization. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki is the kind of book that I will keep very close to me, and will reach out to it again whenever I'm at my lowest. Emotions have something like passageways and if you keep blocking your bad emotions, you end up blocking your good emotions as well. Maybe because I have always associated therapists/psychiatrists with privacy, but there were several instances where I wanted to bow out and leave Baek some space. The early conversations are about how she sees herself having a lot less energy than usual, and doubting what she’s doing everyday.

Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers. I get that it is brave to bare your intimate conversations in the protected space of therapy out for the public to consume, but then, the way it was structured just makes it feel. In my own dark moments, I could turn to its pages and find a glimmer of hope, reminding me that healing is possible, even when it seems impossible. I’m devastated if someone I like doesn’t like me, and devastated when someone does end up loving me; either way, I am looking at myself through the eyes of another. This takes place over the course of twelve weeks, and if you go into this book expecting more than simple conversations about therapy and the sad feelings Baek is going up against every day in her life, then you’re probably not going to be a fan of this book.Today’s review features yet another Korean book, one that was a major success in its native country, with the English-language translation courtesy of a certain Anton Hur. But because that’s not a validation that I am able to accept, there’s a limit to how satisfying it can be, and I become bored of it. Everyone is just trying to be as okay as possible, after all-and seeing Sehee's processing of that in I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is sure to make readers feel a little less alone in their own attempts.

She holds nothing back, to the extent that she often comes across as rather annoying, and she betrays an inability to see what she’s doing at the time she does it. These sections consist of a back and forth between the two in which they look back at the week just gone, discussing the highs and lows of the past seven days.It’s a book featuring a woman looking back at her issues, reflecting on them and reaching out in an attempt to help. Although she didn’t shy away from revealing the difficult and dark parts of her experiences, and herself, she also filled this book with so much light. If you do not want to talk to someone over the phone, these text lines are open 24 hours a day, every day. This book is for those who ask themselves, ‘do others also feel that their mind is torturing them every second? I have heard of this level of incompetence from some of my Asian students and I don’t need to mention how extremely frustrated it makes me.