ADHD with Confidence | Overcome Anxiety & Self-Doubt, Life & ADHD Coach, ADHD in Women
Jun 23, 2026 · 20 min · 7 segments
When you feel rejected, how do you respond? Do you remove yourself from the situation? Do you pretend that you don't care? According to the National Library of Medicine, there are three main…
Kelsey SpronkHost
All right, according to the National Library of Medicine, they did a research project with a bunch of, I think it was university students.
But they said it was apparent that rejection sensitivity significantly impacts mental well-being, eliciting feelings such as anxiousness, despair, and embarrassment.
Some of the other research that they found was that a lot of the participants agreed that the expectation of rejection actually elicited more dysphoria than the rejection itself.
So kind of that anticipation of being rejected, being turned down, failing... whatever it is that they considered to be rejection, that the expectation of it was almost worse.
And I think something that we often get caught in, and this is where I found myself the other day, is we get caught in feeling like we shouldn't feel rejected and like this is something broken that we need to fix.
All right, according to the National Library of Medicine, they did a research project with a bunch of, I think it was university students.
But they said it was apparent that rejection sensitivity significantly impacts mental well-being, eliciting feelings such as anxiousness, despair, and embarrassment.
Some of the other research that they found was that a lot of the participants agreed that the expectation of rejection actually elicited more dysphoria than the rejection itself.
So kind of that anticipation of being rejected, being turned down, failing... whatever it is that they considered to be rejection, that the expectation of it was almost worse.
And I think something that we often get caught in, and this is where I found myself the other day, is we get caught in feeling like we shouldn't feel rejected and like this is something broken that we need to fix.
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