Dr Jessica Eccles

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ADHD Chatter · Oxford Psychiatrist: The Fastest Way To Cure RSD! (New Research) · 4 May 2026 podcast

Well, that's the interesting thing for a neurodivergent person is to what degree can you be filtered?

And to what degree can you put your own brakes on?

And that, as we all know, in...

for neurodivergent people can be incredibly context dependent.

So one day that might be absolutely manageable, but say you had a number of stressors, including, I don't know, mixed social messages, feeling rejected or loss of routine or predictability, that could make that experience much more compelling.

I think, I'm not sure it's just women.

I think that what that story does is illustrate a sort of the kryptonite nature of tolerating uncertainty.

and potentially perceived rejection in a neurodivergent brain that for a number of brain-body reasons is more likely

to potentially be addicted to substances.

So I wouldn't necessarily say it was incredibly typical, but it's totally understandable in terms of how neurodivergent people can be in the world.

So we know that a lot of neurodivergent people find tolerating uncertainty absolutely painful.

Just in the same way as we've been talking about RSD as being painful, that things not being predictable are painful, that this sense of possibly being threatened or judged is painful.

And we also know that neurodivergent people, you know, maybe for various reasons to do with impulsivity and compulsivity, they are often trying to take the edges off a brain that is whirring and probably poised to spot danger and pattern seek.

And for those reasons, and also lots of bodily things that we study to do with inflammation and the autonomic nervous system, that substances are a means of trying to cool that down.

So I think it's a really underexplored area and we need to do some proper research into it.

Why is it that...

that neurodivergent people are more likely to...

use substances or be addicted, because you can be addicted to lots of things that aren't even necessarily substances.

But I also wonder, Alex, if what you describe, this sort of feeling of imposter syndrome, the unpredictability, I called it kryptonite, that actually that

you know, that feeling of things being out of control, that sense of unpredictability, meant that the person you described actually reached for something very predictable.

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