Meet Our Editor's Secret Weapon for Navigating Relationships
By Ashley Selleke, Branded Content Editor
Let me set the scene for you: It's 2016. After four years of dating who I thought was my forever person, I experienced heartbreak for the first time. Cut to scenes of me crying over chicken nuggets, watching The Office on repeat in an effort to escape my reality, checking to see if he watched my story mere minutes after posting. Times were rough and, on top of mending a broken heart, I was dealing with pretty severe anxiety and depression that reared their heads as soon as I found myself vulnerable.
Dating and maintaining relationships is a challenge on a good day but, if you have mental illness, it can feel near impossible. So if there's one gift I wish I could go back in time and give myself while I was sobbing during my fifth watch of Michael Scott's Rabies Fun Run, I would have slipped her the self-help meets memoir book Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression by Allison Raskin.
Raskin is a comedian, podcast host, New York Times bestselling co-author, and mental health advocate who has nailed the art of pursuing love and relationships when simultaneously dealing with mental illness. By sharing firsthand accounts of her experiences and interviews with psychologists, a psychiatrist, a sexologist, relationship experts, and real-life couples, she helps readers to tackle relationships with more confidence and less worry.
From meeting online, to talking to your partner about mental health, to sex, and beyond, this relatable, warm, and honest resource is a tool that I use today to help navigate my relationships. Whether you're looking to get back out there or are looking to improve your relationship with your partner, look no further. Overthinking About You has your back.
Me going into the dating world after reading Overthinking About You:
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