Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression [Paperback]

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 struggleandbetter 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.



        Allison Raskinis aNew York Times bestselling author. She is the cohost of the popular podcastJust Between Us and cocreator of a YouTube channel by the same name. Allison has written and developed multiple TV shows and created the original scripted podcastGossip. A vocal mental health advocate, Allison also runs the mental health–focused Instagram account @emotionalsupportlady.

Contents 

Note to the Reader

Resources

Introduction: What is this book? 

Chapter 1: How can I handle breakups better? 

Chapter 2: What’s me and what’s my disorder? 

Chapter 3: How do I avoid an unhealthy relationship? 

Chapter 4: How do I talk about mental health lS2