I think I made a friend

Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria. Basically if someone ghosts me, talks over me, or otherwise rejects me, it’s obviously because I was annoying or not pretty enough or talked too much or didn’t talk enough or, or, or.

I get rejected, just like everyone else. A healthy person can easily determine if it was a bad fit, or if the other person was an a-hole, or if they need to work on a detrimental flaw.

With RSD, in my head, it’s always my fault. Now that I know I do this, I can practice logically identifying the reason for the rejection, but there’s always that little voice in my head “it’s my fault, I did this thing that annoyed them, or didn’t do that thing and neglected them, etc.”

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