The RSD Files: A Psychologist’s Honest Account: Why Rejection Hurts More Than It Should
You are not too sensitive. You are not too emotional. You are not a lot.
You are, in all likelihood, undiagnosed.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria — RSD — is a feature of the ADHD nervous system that produces intense, overwhelming emotional responses to perceived rejection, criticism, or failure to meet the expectations of people who matter to you. It is not in the DSM-5. It has no formal diagnostic criteria. And it has been quietly running the nervous system of every woman who has ever been t... [Read More...]
