Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

It's unacceptable to anyone.

And the big thing that comes out of that is massive shame.

Shame about who I am.

And that's the source of a lot of the incredibly hostile self-talk that a lot of people have going on in their heads all day long.

Multiplies it.

The other place that that happens, at least it's worse, if not worse, is when they go to their clinician, who probably has not read a word, had never heard the term, and they come in and said,

And here's the thing that gets them in trouble.

I read on the internet about this condition as part of ADHD, and I've got it in spades.

And they then describe RSD.

As far as I can tell, most of the time,

clinicians will go, you're just exaggerating.

Don't get anything from Dr. Google, and especially don't get anything from TikTok.

Let's move on.

And again, that's because a lot of physicians are clods.

Here's a person who just walked in, told you that they had found something in their life that's deeply meaningful, and then for them immediately to discount it.

you might as well just stab them in the chest and wave goodbye to that therapy ever being really an alliance.

They have proven themselves.

They're not worthy of being trusted with their own emotions.

To go back to what you said, I don't really see it as that much of an exaggeration.

I don't see it as a flaw.