If you're looking for better books that are similarly related to mental health and/or therapy, I'd recommend Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (nonfiction). 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.

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This is a hard book to review or rate because according to how it is being marketed it is supposed to be "part memoir" and "part self help", but then, it is neither. Baek-Sehee’s latest book wants to shed the protective curtain over mental health issues that have stigmatized this ongoing epidemic. Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.Terjemahannya bagus, isinya menarik, tapi memang sebaiknya buku ini secara perlahan dan tidak dibaca dalam sekali duduk.

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Clearly, the book is meant as a weapon to fight the stigma around mental illness, it is supposed to function as a resource to give visibility to people who suffer from depression and who might feel alone - and these are important objectives, as depression is a potentially deadly illness that is still misunderstood by many people. This short memoir deals with mental health and a lot of issues most of us keep thinking about almost everyday regarding our own unhealthy behaviour towards ourselves and others (including strangers! In her lowest moments, Baek reaches for a plateful of this familiar comfort which in turn wraps her stomach in a warm, nostalgic hug, tempting her to stay on this Earth a little while longer. then in the end there's a note from see-hee's therapist, and see-hee finishes with a few personal essays about specific problems in her life. The conversations have no structure, no direction, they are all over the place, and I felt that the psychiatrist isn’t even interested in helping their patient.But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki Baek Sehee, THE PHENOMENAL KOREANBESTSELLERTRANSLATED 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 feelinside.

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Emotions have something like passageways and if you keep blocking your bad emotions, you end up blocking your good emotions as well. Born in 1990, Baek Sehee studied creative writing in university before working for five years at a publishing house. I used to treat empathy as something very difficult, and shut myself off from the things that didn’t affect me emotionally.I reached for “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” by Baek Sehee for two main reasons: 1) I hoped to get a better insight into the way a standard therapy is conducted in South Korea, 2) I was interested to see how therapist’s culture influences the approach.