204 A Look at Rejection Sensitivity with ADHD
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A brand new series is here, and it’s on everyone's favorite topic: rejection.
From childhood to adulthood, we experience rejection in a variety of ways and learn how to respond to it. Those of us with ADHD often experience this frequently and at an early age. As a result, we tend to have heightened sensitivity to feelings of exclusion or dismissal. We react extremely or suppress our own desires in order to please the people around us whose love and approval we most crave.
The first episode in this series involves a critical self-examination and reflection time to determine whether or not you may demonstrate rejection sensitivity.
I discuss expert opinions on the relationship between having ADHD and experiencing rejection, how rejection can be perceived but not real and the importance of nurturing our psyches when we experience these strong feelings.
While this episode may bring up some intense memories or emotions, I’m here to offer generous validation and grace so that listeners can better prepare for self-regulation in times of uncertainty.
In addition to finding a good trauma-informed therapist for support, my group coaching program, FOCUSED, is a great, supportive community for other ADHDers learning how to harness our strengths and overcome our weaknesses. I hope you check us out!
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Referenced Links:
Experiences of criticism in adults with ADHD
Rejection sensitivity and the social brain
Rejection sensitivity and disruption of attention
Peer Functioning in Children with ADHD
Peer victimization in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and |
| 0:11.1 | coaching for adults with ADHD. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. |
| 0:27.0 | I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey what's up? |
| 0:38.0 | This is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have it HD podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | I am medicated. I am |
| 0:44.9 | regulated and I am ready to roll. That's right you heard it you heard it. After |
| 0:52.2 | four years of this podcast I'm making a tiny tiny |
| 0:55.4 | tiny but massive change to the intro to include the fact that I am regulated |
| 1:02.3 | because I'm realizing it's not enough to be medicated and it's not enough to be |
| 1:07.2 | caffeinated. I also have the responsibility to be regulated and this is why we're here today, my friend. It's the crux of ADHD management and |
| 1:15.9 | this is what we are learning together day by day on this pod. Medicated, caffeinated, and now we're ready to roll. I got to tell you, though, |
| 1:29.1 | being regulated, it's actually quite difficult for me during this topic because we are talking about |
| 1:35.8 | rejection sensitivity and rejection sensitive dysphoria and I'm not joking when I say |
| 1:41.6 | that it gets me fired up. |
| 1:43.0 | This is going to be a series of episodes on rejection, |
| 1:48.0 | rejection sensitivity, rejection sensitivity, dysphoria, |
| 1:52.0 | etc, etc. And I am going to need to be practicing all of |
| 1:55.8 | myself regulatory techniques as I research and take notes and record today's episode and the episode for next week. My goodness, you might need to |
| 2:07.3 | hang tight and do some deep breathing with me, which is totally fine. We can be in |
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