10/19/2026
“For so much of my life, I truly believed that people did hate me.”
This is what it’s like to live with unmanaged rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), according to Alex Partridge, entrepreneur and host of the popular ADHD Chatter podcast. In a live conversation with ADDitude, Partridge, who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, spoke openly about the “absolutely debilitating” ways RSD affected his life before he had a name for it — and how he’s learning to cope.
https://www.additudemag.com/alex-partridge-rejection-sensitive-dysphoria/