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Sometime before 2016, a psychiatrist started asking their late-diagnosed adult patients with ADHD whether they thought they were more sensitive to rejection and failure than other people.
They said that they were. He didn’t (as far as I can tell) do any comparison with people with mental health problems, or with those with social anxiety. He didn’t look at children or those diagnosed in childhood. He just asked his patients to self-compare with others.
There were no attempts to test out whether this was specific to ADHD, nor universal in those with ADHD.
In 2016, the psychiatrist, William Dodson, gave this a name - rejection sensitivity dysphoria - and started writing about it. It resonated with influencers who created content talking about their RSD. It quickly multiplied. Articles were written about it on official sounding websites. Qualitative research was done, asking people who had heard about RSD whether they experienced it and what it was like.
By 2024, Dodson was saying that RSD was neurological and genetic, not related to trauma and wouldn’t respond to psychotherapy.
By 2026, bestselling author Alex Partridge wrote a whole book about his RSD, pinning it squarely to ADHD and saying that RSD ‘explained my entire life’. He gave a convincing sounding brain-based explanation about ‘glitches’ in how the ADHD brain processes dopamine and nor-epinephrine, and how these lead to rejection feeling far more brutal than for people without ADHD. There is no evidence of this that I have found.
And in this way a psychological and emotional reaction was framed as a neurobiological symptom. Millions started to think that perhaps they had ADHD, because they were sensitive to rejection and failure. RSD spread, and soon people started saying it was part of autism too.
Why does that matter? Because when people think something is due to how their brains work, they think that it is set in stone and won’t change. They think that medication is their only option, and that psychotherapy has nothing to offer. Emotional sensitivity is a really common psychological symptom, and it hasn’t been shown that it’s uniquely part of ADHD. RSD is an example of how neurodivergence is expanding to incorporate emotional reactions, and in the process turning psychology into neurology.
With RSD, the most basic scientific questions haven’t been answered, but you’d never know that from what you see online. There, it all seems so certain and clear.
It’s not.
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La flotilla de medios oficialistas y dependientes del Cies desesperados tratando de posicionar la teoría del suicidio de Mónika Silva
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🕊️ Hallada sin vida en su hogar, Monika Silva Koniuszek (@mejoresdiasEC) deja tras de sí una década de denuncias sobre corrupción, tráfico de tierras y presuntas redes de poder en Santa Elena.
👩👧👧 Madre de dos niñas, activista, exveedora ciudadana y presidenta de la Fundación La Integridad, Monika dedicó sus últimos años a documentar casos que involucraban miles de hectáreas y, hasta sus últimos días, continuó impulsando nuevas acciones de fiscalización.
📑 Su muerte ocurre en un contexto de amenazas y después del asesinato del comunicador Robinson del Pezo, con quien compartió investigaciones sobre las estructuras de poder en la provincia.
⚠️ En esta reseña repasamos los principales casos que investigó y por qué las circunstancias en las que fue encontrada sin vida constituyen una alerta que Ecuador y el mundo no pueden ignorar.
✊ Exigimos que su muerte sea investigada de manera exhaustiva, independiente y transparente. La verdad y la justicia son indispensables para honrar su memoria.
🕯️ Que su voz y su lucha no sean silenciadas por el olvido.
🔗 Lee la nota completa
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Robas, huyes del país, te victimizas, te autodenominas perseguida política, esperas a que las causas legales prescriban, regresas como heroína a vivir como millonaria de todo lo “ganado”. Todos los días en este país se insulta al ciudadano honesto.
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La autora de este artículo critica a la “industria del trauma”, dice que hoy en día todo se nos vende como trauma y hay miles de artículos y libros sobre el tema. Pero cuando todo es trauma, nada es trauma.
El concepto de trauma aparece en el Trastorno por Estrés Postraumático en 1980 en el DSM-III para referirse a experiencias (sobre todo de guerra) que caen fuera de las experiencias de la vida ordinaria. Pero ha sufrido lo que se llaman un deslizamiento de concepto (concept creep) y se ha ampliado a experiencias habituales de la vida.
Mucho de lo que se etiqueta como trauma es sencillamente dolor, que es parte inherente del diseño de la vida y del mundo. El dolor es inevitable (soledad, estrés diario, desafíos sociales), pero ahora todo se etiqueta de trauma e incluso se adopta como parte de la identidad de las personas.
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La salida de Ciudad Celeste para variar colapsada, pero tranquilos que “Bob el Constructor” Yunes ha autorizado algunas plazas más…
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VERY unpopular opinion humans were never meant to be this busy that’s why everybody is anxious and depressed.
