oh wowww... and damn kdramas are my therapy for the longest of time and am sooo excited to read how this therapy is for other beanies.. thanks for this theme DB❤

Oh, during a moment, I thought it was about therapy in Kdrama... They're rarely well adressed... Or, the characters need it but it's like it doesn't exist in their world.

Dramas are a good escape from real life but not to the point to be a therapy for me.

Absolutely none, for me Dramaland is purely for entertainment.

But i will say theres a rom-com from 2014 called "Its Okay, That's Love" that i think did an excellent job in portraying mental illness and its effects on patients and their families without being completely depressing, its one of the very few dramas that stuck with me for years after it ended.

Definitely A Poem A Day (literal translation You Who Forgot Poetry). I used to write a lot of poetry back in high school and it really helped so much mentally and emotionally. Life got to me and somehow, I stopped writing. I watch the drama months after it finished airing. It really came to me without notice and I had no idea what it was even about but it was exactly what I needed. It felt like the show was speaking to me because I forgot poetry. Woo Boyoung is bright and positive despite the challenges she faces everyday. She doesn't give up and is always kind. I aspire to be just like her. Seeing someone in a drama be comforted by poems like I did before really gave me comfort. The couple was also refreshing and mature.

This drama opened up the world of Korean poetry for me and I bought a few books. I'd open them every now and then and they give me comfort as well.

💙💙💙

Reply 1988 gave me comfort.
I still listen to Lee Juck's Don't Worry My Dear and it lifts my spirit.

Kdrama is a priceless therapy for me.

Perfect timing, I have a question: is there any way to block usernames and/or words on this website? Because I struggle with my mental health, and there are people whose comments are always negative or off topic, and I can't deal with them (obviously they have the right to post what they want, it's my problem.)

I stopped reading the Open Threat for that reason, but last week a comment on the section "What we’re watching" triggered me badly and I've been having dark thoughts all week. Kdrama in general bring me comfort, and I love to read the beanies' comments because I don't have any real life friends who watch kdrama (actually I discovered one last week! she lives in another city, but it was really exciting.)

Sometimes I swear it's the other way around.
Lately I seem to be stuck on passionate but doomed romances. I need therapy after my Kdramas.

Just 2 dramas...
My ajusshi
Human Disqualification / Lost

I love this topic.
This has happened to me with a lot of dramas, tbh. Some dramas have appeared in my life like gifts.

The most recent (2021) experiences are 'Be My Dream Family', 'Mad for each other', 'Run On', 'You Are My Spring', 'Yu Mi's Cells'. Especially Be My Dream Family since it was the only drama I watched the months I was on a drama slump. That drama appeared when I really needed a family, and they fixed everything I couldn't fix in real life.

But my first healing drama was Flower Boy Next Door. I remember starting the show and thinking Dok Mi was brilliant since she found how to work from her house and get everything deliver to her. I was making plans about how to go to school from home and then this cute little idiot called Enrique took Dok Mi's hand and helped her face the world and that made me feel so warm... It didn't cure my anxiety or anything but it definitely made me feel better and gave me hope. I've rewatched that show soooo much, and it always has the same effect.

Other mentions could be: Live, Be Melodramatic, My Ahjussi, Reply 88, Prison Playbook, At Eighteen, It's Okay to not be Okay.

Dramas that I loved the first time but I loved more when I rewatched them beacause they appeared at a great time: Shopping Wang Louie, Fight for My Way, Misaeng.

I even want to mention shows that gave me so much peace for no particular reason: Still 17, Boyfriend, Find me in Your Memory, Sweden Laundry.