Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

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

35 reviews

_polaris_'s review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Domestic abuse

_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

hjb_128's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

janewa's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Lesbophobia

hopefulockey's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Great narrator! Very relaxing listen

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

imaggienary's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fatphobia and Violence

luffe_zolo's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness

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

ruthhelizabeth's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Addiction, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Toxic friendship

toastyghosty13's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

4.0

I really liked this book, and this is coming from someone who primarily reads fantasy. 

This is a recording of a korean woman’s therapy sessions, where she explores different issues she is facing internally and externally. A lot of the issues she discusses with her therapist are feelings that are common but can feel like they single you out as different from others. Examples are loneliness and isolation, over analyzing relationships, and finding things you dislike about yourself while failing to change them — and then further beating yourself up over them. 

The format in which this is written makes it much easier to absorb, since sometimes it can be dry content (at least for someone like me from my reading habits). The author writes about her therapy sessions in a chat style format where it shows the dialogue of her and her therapist next to the name of whoever is speaking. This absolutely helped to break up the content when trying to read about it. 

Reading this book helped me to understand that some of what I feel is not that different from what a lot of others feel. It is very easy to feel like you are alone in your thoughts, especially given the last 3 years since 2020 to 2023. This book was a joy to read, and was not at all depressing considering that the entire topic of discussion is experiencing and coping with constant mild depression. On the contrary, I found this to be a very light and delightful read despite the focus on dysthymia. 

I thoroughly recommend this book no matter how not-depressed of a person you are. Everyone has bad feelings, which are part of what makes us human, and this book celebrates the ability to analyze them and allow yourself to feel the shittiness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol