Navigating the Surreal Multiverse of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, Depression & Shame (the full guidebook 170 pages)

A teenager pierces the veils of ignorance, fear, despair, and stigma shrouding the widely misunderstood and underestimated affliction of OCD and its associated anxiety, depression, and shame. Sophia Catalina offers a practical and hopeful roadmap for healing, emphasizing the awareness, attitudes, and skills needed to weave an empowering fabric of support among families, friend groups, and schools.

“An extraordinary and timely teen perspective and voice.

With an engaging authenticity Sophia Catalina shines a welcome light into some dark corners of the adolescent mental health crisis, focusing on OCD, anxiety, depression, and shame. She gives us a first-hand crash course in a complex and unsettling subject matter, inviting us to upgrade our awareness of teen suffering and to grow our compassion.

Most importantly, Catalina offers teens, families, and school staff very practical tools and a realistic hope for the healing journey. I am citing this as an important resource for my psychology students.”

Jürgen W. Kremer, Ph.D (clinical psychology)

Author of Abnormal Psychology: Understanding the Complexities of Psychological Suffering. Professor, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences, Santa Rosa Junior College

“An accessible, unvarnished, and compelling personal story of teen courage and resilience navigating the notoriously difficult “multiverse” of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its associated anxiety, depression, and shame. 

Sophia Catalina offers a practical, relational, and always hopeful roadmap for understanding and alleviating these debilitating afflictions. This is a guide filled with lucid explanations, personal examples, and tips and tools, all punctuated with humor. 

An important resource — even necessary reading — for teens facing such challenges, their families and schools, as well as for clinicians who are supporting these young clients.” 

Erin Warnick, Ph.D 

Clinical Neuropsychologist

“Sophia Catalina artfully invites her fellow teens, and the adults who care for them, to get curious and relational in the face of fear, hardship, and suffering.

Catalina takes us step-by-step through the process of embracing a healing power we have at our fingertips — our heartfelt authenticity. Rather than getting lost in the “problems” of the struggling teen, we instead recognize new opportunities to effectively relate and work as a team to help the teen exit a lonely and overwhelming pain. 



Eloquent, inspirational, yet eminently practical, this guide speaks to all generations and is an important resource for anyone touched by the life of a young person.”

Zack I. Medoff, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist