Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression with Allison Raskin • X89
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- How mental health can impact power dynamics in relationships.
- Navigating what’s you and what’s your disorder.
- How to talk about mental health with your partner.
Cultivating a healthy relationship can be hard enough. . . but what if you also struggle with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar, or a spicy little cocktail of several together?
If you have struggled with mental illness, it’s important to have a partner that you can communicate with so he or she can understand your unique needs.
So today we’re gonna walk you through it so that you feel confident navigating relationships, from that scary initial conversation, to the day to day challenges.
Our guest is Allison Raskin, a New York Times bestselling author, actress, director and co-creator of the YouTube comedy channel and podcast, Just Between Us. She’s also the author of Overthinking About You.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love Premium, episode 89. |
| 0:03.0 | Today's episode is all about navigating romantic relationships when you have anxiety, |
| 0:08.0 | OCD, and or depression. |
| 0:10.0 | And one of the ways that we extend our pain is by doing a lot of what if thinking, right? |
| 0:16.4 | Going backwards and saying, what if I had said this instead of that? |
| 0:20.1 | What if we had met then instead of then? You you know like trying to solve this problem of like what if what if what if and that is |
| 0:28.0 | exhausting and also impossible you'll never know that for sure because you cannot go back in time. And so it's really helpful for me is to say I wish this wasn't my reality, but it is and accepting that this is my reality, what do I do now? |
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| 1:11.5 | cultivating a healthy relationship can be hard enough. |
| 1:15.0 | It almost necessitates self-growth |
| 1:18.0 | because you have to learn to manage your triggers, |
| 1:21.0 | communicate, |
| 1:22.0 | consider someone else's needs beside your own, and hardest of all, probably |
| 1:27.5 | have to share a closet. Dear God. But what if you also struggle with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, |
| 1:36.7 | O. C.D. bipolar, or a spicy little cocktail of several together? |
| 1:42.0 | Mental health issues can distort your perception. If you |
| 1:46.0 | experience anxiety, a social event can feel like impending doom. Depression can |
| 1:52.4 | create a mental filter that singles out only the bad events. |
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