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Therapist's Guide to RSD · Volume I — Foundations and Assessment
Chapter 3: Shame, Threat, and the Nervous System
That reframe alone — if it lands at the right time, which means after the body has settled — changes the trajectory.
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Something shifts in the room, and the reaction is far bigger than anything that happened
Read it free What is in it Chapter 1 · Why RSD Needs a Clinician's Guide open this in the house search The Reaction That Doesn't Match the Event open this in the house search What RSD Is and Is Not open this in the house search Why Generic Advice Fails open this in the house search The Shame Engine open this in the house search Why Timing Matters More Than Content open this in the house search What the Client Can
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Regulation has to happen before the insight will land
Medication is the prescriber's decision and not yours, and two classes — guanfacine and clonidine, the alpha-2 agonists — target the rejection-sensitivity component specifically, modulating norepinephrine in the prefrontal cortex and effectively strengthening the line between the thinking brain and the alarm system.
The House
Something that small should not be able to do this much damage
Neurology is not destiny. It is the route currently in use, and routes are laid down by whatever happens repeatedly.