Rejection Sensitivity

Someone reads your message and doesn't reply. Before you've checked again you've already constructed what you did wrong.

A friend cancels plans. The cancellation doesn't feel like a scheduling issue — it feels like information about whether they want to see you at all.

You get useful feedback on something you made. You know it's useful. You can't access useful for a few hours because something else is running.

Someone disagrees with you in a group. The disagreement is mild. It sits with you for the rest of the day in a way the scale doesn't explain.

You send a message and immediately start wondering if the wording was wrong, too much, or going to be misread.

You didn't get chosen for something — a job, a group, an invitation. The not-getting-it lands bigger than the thing itself warranted.

Someone's tone shifts slightly in a conversation. You notice immediately and start recalibrating before you have any information.

You said something honest that didn't land well. You've returned to it more than once since then.

A relationship you care about goes quiet for a few days. The quiet generates its own explanation before you have any facts.

Criticism from someone you respect sits in your chest in a way that mild disapproval from a stranger doesn't. The source changes the weight.