Dr Jessica Eccles

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

And I think in that work, some of the people that we interviewed said that they even missed out on career opportunities

because they were afraid of or they feared rejection or that they would sort of hobble themselves, so like hand in essays late, knowing that they'd get a lower mark in order to make that feeling of possible rejection less.

But in terms of people pleasing, I think that that is also another reason

mechanism is to put your own needs aside in order to um in order to make sure that other people um uh to try and control the situation yeah by people pleasing but that that you get into a vicious circle though don't you um which is not very helpful um

Well, I don't think we completely know.

And we could hypothesize.

And it does seem that neurodivergent people are more likely to experience trauma.

And the work that we are doing, particularly at Brighton Sussex Medical School, about the sort of neurodivergent brain body type suggests that maybe perhaps because of these flexible hypermobile joints, that neurodivergent people experience trauma differently because they have a...

And we talk about this in the earlier ADHD chatter episode.

They have this trigger-happy autonomic nervous system.

So you're constantly, your propensity to go into flight or fright, I always say that wrong, sorry, flight or fright, is so much, is...

That's on a hair trigger.

So if you combine that with having loads of triggering experiences or, you know, micro traumas and the propensity to feel good,

physiologically in flight or fright.

And then you maybe combine that with what we talk about on, I have the Bendy Brain YouTube channel on the Bendy Brain episode four.

I think we talk about unusual sensory experiences and people having this very vivid mental imagery.

So if you combine trauma, neurodivergence, the brain body type,

that is, you know, hair trigger in terms of flight or fright and a very vivid mental imagery that is going to be, feel traumatic.

And you're going to feel that in the body.

Also, the other thing that I think is that a lot of neurodivergent people, and we've done research into this, or we're doing research at the moment, you know, this idea of alexithymia, this difficulty understanding, describing or recognizing emotions.

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