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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

Depression, self-discovery, and the love of tteokbokki.

If you've ever found yourself laughing on the outside while dealing with inner turmoil, Baek Sehee's raw and honest account will resonate with you. It's a touching journey through mental health struggles and the small joys that keep us going, like the craving for comfort food. It’s a reminder that it's okay to seek help and that the path to understanding oneself often begins with acknowledging our vulnerabilities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781526648099
Authors: Baek Se-hee
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Date of Publication: 2024-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Personal Development
Related Topics: Personal Development, Psychology, Memoir, Mental Health, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.21
(rated by 97891 readers)

Description

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house who begins seeing a psychiatrist about her depression. She feels persistently low, anxious, and endlessly self-doubting, yet she is highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings at work and with friends, presenting the calm exterior her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting and overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. But if she’s so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favorite street food, tteokbokki? Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over twelve weeks, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.
 

Depression, self-discovery, and the love of tteokbokki.

If you've ever found yourself laughing on the outside while dealing with inner turmoil, Baek Sehee's raw and honest account will resonate with you. It's a touching journey through mental health struggles and the small joys that keep us going, like the craving for comfort food. It’s a reminder that it's okay to seek help and that the path to understanding oneself often begins with acknowledging our vulnerabilities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.