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204 A Look at Rejection Sensitivity with ADHD

I Have ADHD Podcast

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The Importance of Being Responsive to Rejection

Adults with ADHD are more sensitive to rejection than the average person. This is because our brains don't work like everyone else's, and we struggle to regulate our emotions. If you've been made to feel at fault for pretty much everything, if you feel the need to people please and take care of your parents in order to get the love and affection that you deserve as their child, wouldn't that perhaps cause some rejection sensitivity? We're social creatures biologically wired for connection. And so of course we are sensitive to rejection because rejection means danger.

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