Overthinking About You
Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression
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Publisher Description
Dating is hard. But pursuing love and relationships when you live with mental illness can be even more overwhelming.
Allison Raskin knows this challenge firsthand and shares her journey with perfect candor. She’s learned from her experiences, and we get to learn from her, discovering new ways to form healthy dating and relationship habits. How do you talk to a partner about your mental health? What is the potential impact of SSRIs on your body? What is the difference between having valid concerns and catastrophizing? It’s all here, from meeting online to how to handle a breakup, from recognizing and avoiding unhealthy relationships to the big one—sex.
Woven in throughout are interviews with clinical psychologists, a psychiatrist, a sexologist, relationship experts, and real-life couples for their points of view and professional guidance. All to help you walk away from this book feeling less alone in the struggle and better prepared to tackle dating and relationships with more confidence and less worry.
It’s a transformative book, with insights on every page and an inspiring message of optimism and hope.
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Self-help and memoir collide in this courageous and practical guide by Just Between Us podcaster Raskin (I Hate Everyone Except You) on how people with mental illness can "form healthy dating and relationship habits." Raskin, who has been diagnosed with anxiety, OCD, and depression, shares her struggles with mental illness while delivering actionable advice in the form of conversations with psychologists, a therapist, and a sexologist, among other experts. The author provides tips on how to talk about mental health with partners, noting that readers don't have to divulge everything at once, that they should address their illness deliberately (not compulsively), and that they should be forthright about how their symptoms present. Raskin also tackles such questions as, "How do I date productively?"; "What's me and what's my disorder?"; and "How can I handle breakups better?" Raskin's podcasting roots show through in her conversational prose ("Why shouldn't devouring an ice cream sundae be as valuable an experience as multiple orgasms?"), which is studded with lengthy quotes from experts and couples, all tied together by her unwaveringly empathetic approach. This invaluable and empowering primer delivers on its promise to help readers date while struggling with mental illness.
