Eric Budding’s Reviews > I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist > Status Update

“When my thoughts get into such an extreme dimension, I do think to myself, ‘Why on earth do I go on living like this?’ There are happy things, but I have to keep competing and coming up with ideas and those anxieties are still larger than the happy things, you know? When my feelings are consumed by rage, I just want to die.”

“I hate the way my face looks, so who cares how many times a day someone says I’m pretty? I will only continue to absorb the words that are critical of me.”

This section really resonated with me. Why do we hold so strongly to the words that have hurt us in the past? Even years later, they tend to be all that we remember.