Dr. Alex George

You know, my psychiatrist, who's been working in this space for 20 plus years within the ADHD space, you know, she feels strongly that it is the most painful for almost every ADHDer, you know, experienced the RSD side of things.

Because it's not just the experience of the rejection, it's what happens afterwards.

It's the kind of, as you said, the knee-jerk reaction, the removing yourself from a situation that could have been great, the ruining of an otherwise good day, you know, because of an already unpleasant experience.

It's like a double pain, isn't it?

If the rejection's painful, then the consequence of that rejection or perceived rejection is often even worse than the initial feeling.

It's very, very cruel.

And I don't know that there's an easy way to fix that for people.

I think the only way I think is to just be really quick at recognizing it, naming it, saying, this is rejection.

I'm going to give it three hours, see how I feel in four hours, just to practice with four hours and then work it up to say 24 hours where you're able to sit with it, remove yourself, whatever you need to do, and then come back to it if necessary in a measured state.

Well, now my weekend is not going to be lovely.

Everything but.

It's so...

We know that the problem is with the emotional part of the brain is hugely spiked.

The logical part of the brain is decreased.

They can't really exist together.

A highly emotional state doesn't really interact well or doesn't

or correspond a logical state of brain.

It's very hard to have the both, really.

It's like this, once the emotional part of you is really high and spiked, all the kind of logical processing, the executive functioning part decreases.

And we know that obviously with ADHD, you know, it's a challenge of executive functioning.