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Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello and welcome back to Big Moob Little Moot.

I'm your host, Danny Ann Lavery.

And with me in the studio this week is Alison Raskin, a leading voice in mental health advocacy,

and the New York Times bestselling author of the books,

I hate everyone but you, a novel, and overthinking about you,

navigating romantic relationships when you have anxiety,

OCD, and or depression.

Alison, welcome to the show.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

I feel so much like I could have pulled questions that had the same sign-offs as the title

of either of the books mentioned in that bio.

And so I feel like this is going to be a really,

this is going to be right in your wheelhouse, I hope. Yeah, my third book is called,

please send help. So I think they all sort of fit within. Yeah, you're very much working within the advice column genre. So this feels like just a perfect, perfect pairing.

And the only thing now I wish is that I could have gotten a letter about somebody who hates everyone but one person.

But I guess into every life, a little rain must fall.

And if that's ours, there are worse things to deal with.

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