Dr Jessica Eccles

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

It's a whole body thing.

Rejection sensitivity, the research that we did suggests that it is a whole body thing.

So the people in the research described

the threat of rejection or actual rejection as feeling like a punch in the chest, as though, I can't remember the exact words, but something like the rug being pulled out from underneath them or the ground falling out from beneath their feet, that this experience of rejection or perceived or the threat of rejection kind of changed their actual body behavior

temperature so what we know is that um there is actually very little research on on rejection sensitivity that research that we just did shows that it is um it is an embodied

But the other important thing I think to bear in mind is that the research about RSD shows it's not necessarily particular to ADHD.

So there are some papers, very interesting papers about RSD.

social pain and vicarious social pain in autism and rejection sensitivity.

And it's also in the trauma literature and in the esteem literature.

I think it comes back to the idea of possible rejection as a fundamentally painful experience.

And I do research about neurodivergence and physical pain.

So we've shown that, you know, neurodivergent people, as your paper just published last month, are more likely to experience chronic pain and fatigue because of having flexible joints.

What we know is that if you experience...

So if you experience physical pain, that lights up bits of your brain and bits of the brain involved in fear and emotion.

If you experience social pain, that lights up the same parts of the brain as physical pain.

And even more interestingly, if you observe someone in pain, that may light up the same parts of your brain in pain.

So there is this really kind of fundamental thing about the experience of pain.

And I think rejection sensitivity is a good example of the brain-body nature of pain.

Yes, so masking that.

Well, I think...

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