The RSD Files

The RSD Files is a nonfiction series written by clinical psychologist Dr Melanie du Preez — an ADHD specialist, BWRT practitioner, and late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman with 26 years of practice.

Each book in the series addresses one context in which Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria operates: the self, the relationship, the workplace, the body, the next generation. Each is written from the same position — both sides of the consulting room — and in the same voice: dry, honest, clinically grounded, and deliberately free of toxic positivity.

This is not a workbook series. There are no fill-in prompts, no transformation promises, and no suggestions that RSD is a gift waiting to be unwrapped. What there is: a name for the thing, a neurological map, and the specific relief of finally being written for accurately.

The RSD Files: A Psychologist’s Honest Account: Why Rejection Hurts More Than It Should

From the series: The RSD Files

You are not too sensitive. You are not too emotional. You are not a lot.
You are, in all likelihood, undiagnosed.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria — RSD — is a feature of the ADHD nervous system that produces intense, often overwhelming emotional responses to perceived rejection, criticism, or failure to meet the expectations of people who matter to...

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When It Lives in Your Relationships: The RSD Files

From the series: The RSD Files

Book 1 gave you the name. This book shows you where it actually lives. RSD doesn’t stay in one place. It shows up in the marriage, in the meeting room, in a body renegotiating its own rules in midlife, and in a child who inherited the same wiring you did. Most books would split that into four tidy chapters and pretend the boundaries hold. They...

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