The Beginners Guide to Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: How to Understand and Recognize Intense Rejection

by John-Paul Byrne

Do you suffer from intense feelings of rejection? Do you experience deep emotional and physical intensity that is manifested without warning? Maybe you know someone who seems to be overly sensitive to perceived or real rejection and then presents irrational behaviour?

RSD stands for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It can seriously impact the quality of life of an individual. If you experience intense emotional and/or physical pain when you perceive rejection, then you may have RSD.

Whilst it is commonly attributed to those who have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and is not an officially recognised mental health disorder, the author felt it necessary to educate and help those suffering from intense rejection.

This book, now in it's second edition, will introduce you to Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), intense rejection and help you understand these experiences. You will discover who it affects and how it feels to suffer from intense rejection.

The Beginners Guide to Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, the first book in the series Understanding and Identifying Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, will teach

what Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) is
how to know if you have RSD
what it feels like to have RSD
the causes of RSD
common behaviours of someone with RSD
the inner-child's role in RSD
how to label rejection events
simple steps to identify your rejection triggers
simple strategies for handling rejection
how to interact with someone suffers from intense rejection

Written from the experience of someone who overcame RSD, this book is easy to read and can be used to educate yourself or as a tool to support someone else.

RSD is highly comorbid in ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). This book intentionally focuses on RSD as there is very limited written material for RSD in isolation and yet would be valuable to so many sufferers.

Those who suffer with RSD live an internalised experience of deep rejection. This internal experience is manifested at quantum speeds, with deep emotional pain and intensity experienced almost instantly with little understanding of how the mind got there so quickly.

The only control we have is internal. The reader is asked to believe in the possible and suspend any beliefs that RSD is a chemical brain imbalance that cannot be improved or thrived from.

The accepted norm of chemical brain dysfunction is that we can do nothing about it. The author, whilst recognising that this may be true, challenges the collective acceptance within his books in this series.

Genres: Self Help

102 pages, Paperback

Published April 20, 2020

Reviews

[Brenda Marie]

Cohesive, but it reads like a textbook. Informationally speaking, there wasn’t really anything I couldn’t have written myself as someone who also suffers from RSD and is an ADHD neurodivergent thinker. I do think though that this book could be helpful for a family member of someone who experiences RSD to have better insight into the way their loved one’s brain works. The best part of this book for me is just knowing that I’m not alone in my experience.

[Cam]

Dry read but informative

It’s a short read that is absolutely worth the time if you or someone you care about has RSD. It’s not exciting prose; think more dry academic treatise. But I learned a lot!

[Theresa]

Just Learning

This book is great in defining RSD. The symptoms that it mentions , I can totally relate too. I finished it almost as soon as I bought it as it is a fast read.

[Nathan]

Book is a scam; basically a short web article meant to sell other books. Give you less information than you would get off wikipedia or a quick google search.

[Nika]

Dry, but informative and relatable to my personal experience. It was a very validating read for me. I wish more information was included in this book, rather than splitting it into multiple though.