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“Rejection sensitivity dysphoria” AKA are we just going to pathologize every single negative human experience now?

Not really drama so much as a term I heard recently when a girl said she had RSD. Having never encountered this word, I looked it up and seems like it's a term used to describe feeling extremely bad when rejected, except of course now it has a “diagnosis” type sounding label, and people with adhd say it's different for them, it's a disorder.

A picture from /r/adhdwomen for your edification:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/comments/1c0ms2h/rsd_signs/?sort=controversial

Or course Redditors apply it to themselves like a girl scout collecting badges:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/192a5d6/just_learned_about_rejection_sensitive_dysphoria/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/131ni64/rejection_sensitivity_is_the_worst/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/1b82hos/how_do_you_all_deal_with_rsd_rejection/?sort=controversial

The funny thing is that a good way to frick with overly sensitive self-diagnosers is to deny RSD exists.

Edit: ithe D stands for dysphoria, not disorder lol

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