Dr Jessica Eccles

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438 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 May

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

You know, you're running away from bears and things or bears are making you run.

You don't want, you know, prey smelling fear and all of that sort of thing.

So there is a degree...

to which we all have to mask in order to get through the world and to do the things that you're expected to do.

But at the same time...

I think that although masking can possibly protect you from RSD, we have done some quantitative research.

So looking at numbers, we haven't published it yet, but this is with our student, Rebecca Gazet, that we have shown that rejection sensitivity is,

leads to dissociative experiences, so disconnecting in neurodivergent people, and that that is altered by the presence of masking.

So I think if you...

If you mask, you might be protected a little from experiences of rejection, or if you can reframe them, you know, kind of cognitively appraise them.

But at the same time...

this could lead to dissociation, which could potentially be implicated in severe mental illness.

We talk in the RSD paper about the overlaps with the fact that this phenomenon led to people feeling disconnected and how feelings of disconnection

And dissociation may be driving experiences in things like bipolar disorder or what some people describe as borderline personality disorder and also in complex PTSD.

Yes.

I think that that is absolutely true.

So, you know, I talk to some patients and I have some friends who say, you know, when I was at school, I was the class joker.

I was the life and soul of the party.

But that wasn't me at all.

That's what people have said to me, that, you know, they basically put on a mask and

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