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.

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 with my partner?  

Chapter 5: Will medication help or hurt?  

Chapter 6: What’s sex got to do with it?  

Chapter 7: How do I date productively?   

Chapter 8: How do I not give up? 

Acknowledgments