Baek Sehee
1. I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
further conversations with my psychiatrist. The Sunday Times and internationally bestselling sequel to the hit Korean therapy memoir
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Jully LeeSpieldauer
4 Stunden und 42 Minuten
Family Sharing
Ja
Abo-Fähigkeit
Nein
Erscheinungsdatum
06.06.2024
Hörtyp
Lesung
Fassung
ungekürzt
Bloomsbury presents I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, read by Jully Lee.
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THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER
TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR
'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' – Red
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her – what to call it? – depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.
But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?
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. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.
_______________
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER
TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR
'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' – Red
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her – what to call it? – depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.
But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?
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. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.
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I regret it
Bewertung am 27.07.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2253778
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)
The idea of this book are transcribed therapy sessions to which the author provides some back stories at times. While I thought this to be brave at first it later on struck me as a cheap way to write a book without any effort what so ever. The author is very authentic throughout the book and some choices do make you cringe quite hard ( which is a plus!). The depiction of mental health and the reactions of the psychiatrist make me wonder if she is even licensed. There is little to no social awareness or knowledge to be taken from that book. While there is somewhat of a trigger warning in there I would say it does not do the horrific and unreflected depiction of eating disorders justice at all.
I enjoyed the first book - however if I could go back in time and stop myself from buying and reading that book I would.
I do not find it insightful nor helpful what so ever, the positive things about that book would be that it is beautiful on your book shelf, it reads quite quickly and does provide an insight in how messy one’s mind can be. There are however many books which would tick all those boxes and do not come of as juvenile and unreflected and cheap.