RSD Expert: Why Rejection Feels So Painful With ADHD & how to fix it

If you're experiencing [music] RSD, the really important thing to remember , we cannot trust it . That is the difficult bit because he's giving us this really urgent [music] message . You must do something about this. This is serious. . You must take action on this . But actually, it's completely disproportionate . So, we have to learn [music] to not trust that response , but it's a bit like an addiction . It's very difficult to separate [music] the trigger from the reaction . Jessica Summers is a worldleading ADHD expert specializing in rejection sensitivity dysphoria . [music] As a qualified psychotherapist , she can help you understand why you overthink , struggle [music] with shame , and why you're triggered by that one small comment . RSD is an experience [music] that is a nervous system that's out of whack . But there's nothing wrong with your threat assessor . You have a working threat [music] assessor , so it should be telling you that it just needs recalibrating . It is a healthy response, but it needs dialing down . Can RSD sometimes manifest [music] itself as aggressive behavior as a means of defense ? This is the saddest part about it. It 's [music] Jessica . Thank you so much for joining . Oh, I'm thrilled to be here. It's amazing . We're going to be talking about a big topic today . RSD, rejection sensitive dysphoria, which when I ask people what the hardest part of ADHD is, time and time again now people are saying rejection sensitive dysphoria . So, what is RSD and why does it hurt so much