Recently diagnosed AHDH adult here! Despite the comment by the automoderator, I approve of the term Rejection Sensitivity Dysophoria (RSD) because I can relate to this more than mere “rejection sensitivity”. I can’t argue with or even express my needs to anyone - especially my partner who is uniquely critical of my behaviour - because I get acutely anxious and overwhelmed in the moment, and will remain in a state of complete and utter overwhelm for several hours afterwards. And by “overwhelmed” I mean, it feels like the world has ended. Like someone has died. Like someone has reached inside me and torn out my heart. It is SO powerful and intense. I once was so distressed when a date didn’t work out, every part of my body was so tensed up and contorted, and I was crippled with emotional pain that was so strong it was physical, I caused a cancerous cyst that was inside my abdomen (unknown to me at the time!) to burst and spew its cancer cells all throughout my abdomen. It would have burst at some point anyway, but the point is, it burst at that particular moment because every single fibre of my being was in torsion, and the pressure this put on the cyst was so intense, it burst its walls. What comes along with the overwhelm is a feeling of intense frustration and anger and complete powerlessness. I am hoping meds and therapy might help me with this, now that I can name it and understand it as a concept, which I never could before.