Hmmm 2.5 stars rounded up
I thought that this would be an insightful look on how therapy and mental illness is in a country like SK, and I'm glad I read this but also kind of...disappointed? I wish I would've gotten more of a day to day look at how this woman deals with her depression (what My Year of Rest and Relaxation was able to do) but this was ultimately a just a long winded transcript of our main character and snippets of their conversations in therapy. I first really liked the bluntness of the therapist (because that's my own personal preference for therapy) but it began to drag on and on to where I found her responses a bit grating and not exactly appropriate for the conversation. I think that if someone had never gone to therapy or experienced what conversations in therapy look like, then this is a prime example of how it goes and what you can anticipate. Maybe?? I would read this again if I wanted a different look into depression and responses to behaviors from an outside lens?? Idk I think that while it was brave for this author to put her personal experiences out, it's important to remember that these are HER experiences. I think that due to how the book is written based on conversations it got super repetitive, but in combination with both the therapist and MC being a little irritating and static, it just wasn't for me. I'm overall a little disappointed because I normally love memoirs and was super excited to get a new look or perspective on therapy culture/depression in SK but that's not what this book gave me.