I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

I’ve been in therapy for a year and a half now on-and-off. I love it and would recommend it to anybody. At her best my therapist offers me an opinion or an angle I hadn’t thought of, and by speaking my thoughts out loud I often learn about myself in unexpected ways. I picked this up in an airport on the way home from Ireland.

This book is a journal of Sehee’s therapy sessions. As such it’s raw and desperate and authentic. There are some cultural differences in Korea it seems, and my therapist is nothing like her’s - for which I’m very glad. But the feeling of helplessness and slow progress were very resonant. I’d encourage other therapy-havers to give this a go.