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I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki / Baek Sehee ; translated from the Korean by Anton Hur.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635579383 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xi, 192 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Original Korean edition published 2018. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Slightly depressed -- Am I a pathological liar? -- I'm under constant surveillance -- My desire to become special isn't special at all -- The Goddamn self-esteem -- What should I do to know myself better? -- Regulating, judging, being disappointed, leaving -- Medication side effects -- Obsession with appearances and histrionic personality disorder -- Why do you like me? Will you still like me if I do this? Or this? -- I don't look pretty -- Rock bottom -- Epilogue: it's okay, those who don't face darkness can never appreciate the light -- Psychiatist's note: from one incompleteness to another -- Postscript: reflections of life following therapy. |
| Language Note: | In English, translated from Korean. |
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| Subject: | Depressed persons > Interviews. Depressed persons > Counseling of. Depression, Mental > Treatment. Mental health counseling. |
| Genre: | Essays. Interviews. |
- Baker & Taylor
A successful young social media director at a publishing house chronicles her 10 years of psychiatric treatment for depression and she fought back against the harmful behaviors that kept her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"A successful young social media director at a publishing house chronicles her ten years of psychiatric treatment for depression and she fought back against the harmful behaviors that kept her locked in a cycle of self-abuse"-- - McMillan Palgrave
The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker shortlistee Anton Hur.
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 judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work, but 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 favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?
Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the harmful behaviors 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 the first book in a duology to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. - McMillan Palgrave
The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker shortlistee Anton Hur.
