Alex Partridge

And it's not fair that we're having to

be stuck in those periods of heightened anxiety.

I mean, that can look like sleepless nights.

If someone texts you on Friday saying, can we chat Monday morning?

Your weekend is ruined.

So asking for context, never allowing somebody to put you in that position.

So if your boss emails you asking for a quick chat, like reply, yeah, okay, fantastic.

Can I please just understand what we're going to be talking about?

Can you send me an agenda?

Really advocating for clarity and context over...

The future scenario that you're going to be walking into will save so much anxiety.

i mean you know bad news does happen bad news does happen and i think there's there's no way to get out of bad news sometimes but at least you're either going to get the bad news now or you're going to get it on monday morning with a horrible weekend as well so you might as well choose to get it now and enjoy your weekend a band-aid take it off fast

yeah don't let anyone put you in a position where a lack of context or clarity is causing you to be unwell we shouldn't let anyone put us in that position we'd rather we can take bad news and we can talk about rsd and that's another conversation but we'd rather know the context and what's going on and deal with it rather than be stuck in this horrible horrible black hole of uncertainty and anxiety and

catastrophization over what is that meeting going to be about.

Don't let anyone put you in that position.

Number 12.

A sentence we should all say to ourselves, it makes sense that I feel this way.

And I think it's such an important reminder that so many of us should say to ourselves.

particularly when it comes to feeling overstimulated or overwhelmed or paralyzed sometimes with an inability to make a decision or the intense emotions that can come with an RSD trigger.

All of these things are very relatable experiences to the all-DHD community.