Living with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) - The Storyteller Who Fills In The Blanks
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Living with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) can feel like sharing your head with a brilliant yet impulsive storyteller. The kind who writes fast, edits nothing and doesn’t wait for the facts to come in. Sounds exhausting, doesn’t it?
The moment something feels off, like a pause in a conversation, a glance that lands strangely, a message left unanswered, the storyteller leaps into action. Before you’ve had a chance to take a breath, a whole narrative is spinning: “They’re upset. You messed up. You’ve ruined everything.”
This inner narrator isn’t trying to sabotage you. It’s trying to protect you. Every sharp plot twist it creates is rooted in something real: those past moments where your feelings weren’t safe, your presence wasn’t welcome and your needs were dismissed. These memories live deep in your nervous system as emotional imprints. When something even slightly resembles a previous hurt, your brain doesn’t wait for confirmation. It reacts as if it’s happening again.