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Seeing Other People

Dating Anxiety: How to Stop Overthinking and Self-Sabotaging

Seeing Other People

Ilana Dunn

Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Social Sciences, Science

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

I’m joined by therapist Annie Josephson, PsyD, MSEd, Founder of Uptown Psychology to talk about why dating make us so anxious, even when it’s going well. We discuss why it shows up, how to manage it, and how to tell the difference between fear and intuition. We also answer listener questions about spiraling after dates, ghosting before anything starts, and feeling stuck in situationships.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

Okay, guys, I'm so excited for this episode and to have Ann Josephson here with me on seeing other people.

0:13.4

And welcome to the pod.

0:14.6

Thank you.

0:15.2

I'm so happy to be here too.

0:17.2

So happy to have you.

0:18.5

This is a conversation everyone's going to be on the edge of their seats for because it's something that literally every listener struggles with dating anxiety.

0:26.4

Yes. It is a lot of what I see in my practice day to day, people struggling with, you know, anxiety before dates, during dates, after dates, all the things.

0:34.7

There's not a moment of dating that doesn't have potential for anxiety.

0:40.4

I know.

0:40.8

Isn't it sad?

0:41.5

It shouldn't be that way.

0:42.6

I know, but it's terrible.

0:44.4

It's so terrible.

0:45.9

Yeah.

0:46.4

So uptown psychology.

0:47.8

Yes.

0:48.4

How long have you been a therapist for?

0:50.9

So I graduated my program six years ago ago and I started my private practice in

0:56.2

2020 right during the pandemic and have been doing it since in private practice and

1:02.2

recently expanding to have more therapists when you decided you wanted to, you know, become a therapist, pursue this path, what was your why behind it?

1:19.4

So I was actually a special education teacher after college and I went and got my master's in that and did that for a few years.

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