Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

26 reviews

_fathimanourin1234_'s review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Actually, this book is about the author and her conversations between her psychiatrist.
I liked this book. There were so many things that we needed to know and we should remember.
This book was not that impactful for me. 
But there were so many life lessons that we should know like loving yourself, accepting yourself as you are, being yourself. There are so many instances about these things.
I just liked this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

itsme_bianca's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

PREMISE - this IS NOT a self-help type of memoir. The setup is easy to follow and it's a smooth read; the layout of patient-therapist allows you not only to get an insight into the author's brain but yours as well. I found myself constantly relating to her and how she views herself, and it's nice to know someone out there feels the same way I sometimes do.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

sigreads_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

crushedredpepper's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Eating disorder and Alcohol

Minor: Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Minor: Domestic abuse

ameliabee33's review against another edition

dark emotional

4.25

As someone who has struggled with mental health, reading Sehee's own struggle and her personal thoughts throughout her appointments was as deeply triggering as it was deeply freeing. I felt extremely seen by this book. I saw, what I consider, the worst parts of myself in her. I was shocked to hear that I have never had an original/singular experience 😅 I am truly, and honestly, not alone. 

I can't say that this was particularly an enjoyable read for me. While I felt very much seen, and represented, like I mentioned it was somewhat triggering for me. Sehee isn't incredibly likable but she is incredibly raw. She doesn't hold back from being an unlikable narrator, her thoughts are not always good and filled with a desire to do better. Sometimes mental health is ugly. Healing is ugly. The way to being better is ugly.

I believe that this is a great book for those who want a deeply personal look at mental health, mental health in women, and the road to improving (whatever that looks like). 

Please read the tws though before reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

risten's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Classism

mangofraiche's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Alcohol

booksjessreads's review against another edition

dark informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

I was never really bothered about reading this book, but then it came in as a new book for my library and didn't have a queue of holds, so I took my chance and read it. Because of my previous apathy for the book, I didn't really go into this with any expectations, and I did come out of this book having an appreciation for the authors experience, as well as prompting my own self-reflection. I also do enjoy translated fiction, especially when written by women. This did give a good insight into the impact of Korean society on women's mental health.

I think this was a really easy-to-read memoir and it was very fast paced, which concerned me in areas that it was so quick to get through, despite the heavy subject matter. I appreciated that each chapter was not just dialogue between the psychiatrist and the author and was broken up with an introduction and an analysis of the conversation afterwards. 

Despite this though, I did also feel the memoir to be quite average. Not that this book is supposed to be astounding, groundbreaking, or full of fancy prose. However, if it hadn't been so easy to read, I would have just DNF'ed. It also just felt very samey to a lot of the mental health memoirs and fiction that is already out there. There is supposed to be a second book coming out next year, but I feel like this is better as a stand-alone, and it certainly didn't grip me enough to want to read the second one. 

Overall, an average memoir, but I would suggest it as a good read for those new to translated fiction with regards to Korean society and mental health.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

thebookguru's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

Interesting and relatable and hopeful book! 

Defo recommend to anyone struggling with mental health issues or you have a mental illness or if you just want to find out more about mental health and what it is like living with certain illnesses. 

Haven’t read a memoir in a long time but glad I managed to finish this!

Also, the title of this book is perfect 😹👏🏽

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, and Classism