When Feedback Feels Personal: Navigating Criticism with ADHD

For many adults with ADHD, even gentle feedback can feel deeply personal. This isn’t oversensitivity — it’s an emotional response linked to rejection sensitivity and past experiences of being misunderstood.

Coaching helps separate fact from feeling, so feedback becomes information, not a verdict.

By building emotional awareness and self-soothing tools, you can respond thoughtfully instead of reactively.

Over time, feedback stops triggering shame and starts guiding growth.

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