Your EG theory posits that emotional regulation in ADHD functions like an internal firewall, protecting against emotional overload. RSD represents a critical vulnerability in this system—a failure in the emotional firewall triggered by perceived or real rejection. This breakdown leads to intense emotional responses that override logical processing, even when the individual is aware of the trigger.​

I didn’t go to medical school. I didn’t get certified by a board or trained by the system. But I lived it. Every day. I lived through untreated ADHD and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) — not in theory, not from textbooks, but in the rawest form: with a brain that never shut off, emotions that never faded, and wounds that never healed.

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