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How ADHD rejection sensitivity affects relationships

My ADHD makes me so sensitive to rejection that I overanalyze every text message and assume people hate me when they take too long to respond.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system's heightened threat detection creates meaning from neutral data, generating suffering from imagined social dangers.

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