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Webinars & Podcasts Free Webinar Replay: The Flip Side of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Access the video replay, listen to the podcast episode (#278), download the slide...
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Symptom Tests [Self-Test] Could You Have Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria? Rejection sensitive dysphoria, or the extreme emotional pain linked to feelings of...
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Rejection Sensitivity Is Worse for Girls and Women with ADHD Too many women with ADHD choose isolation to avoid the emotional pain of rejection — an...
The ADHD Brain 3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks The textbook signs of ADD — inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity — fail to reflect...
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ADHD in Women ADHD, Women, and the Danger of Emotional Withdrawal ADHD and emotional withdrawal — pulling away from friends, strangers, and loved ones...
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ADHD Symptoms in Children “My ADHD Looks Nothing Like Your ADHD” Our family of five includes five distinct and different ADHD diagnoses. Where one son is...
Typical ADHD Behaviors Why We Feel So Much — and Ways to Overcome It Research shows that people with ADHD have out-sized challenges with frustration,...
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Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria How to Distinguish RSD from Bipolar Disorder Forty percent of individuals with bipolar disorder also have ADHD. The conditions’...
Anxiety Life with Anxiety: “I’m Trying to Be a Little Less Afraid” Women with ADHD have spent their lives scrabbling around for social footing, constantly...
Free Downloads Free Resource: Understanding Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria The emotional response to perceived or real failure can be devastating to people with...
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ADDitude ADHD Experts Podcast Listen to “All the Feels: An ADHD Guide to Emotional Dysregulation and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria” with William W. Dodson, M.D. People with ADHD feel emotions more intensely, more frequently, and more suddenly. In...
Support & Stories The Heavy, Honest Lived Experiences of ADHD Adults Impulsivity and inattention are not the most debilitating or noticeable symptoms of ADHD...