An ADHDier course · Feelings + Overwhelm
When Feelings Hit Fast
ADHD, emotional intensity, rejection and the recovery afterwards.
What this course is
Not motivation.
Activation.
The feeling is already at ten before you've registered that anything happened. Then comes the reaction, and then several hours of reviewing the reaction.
This is one of the least discussed and most exhausting parts of ADHD. It is not immaturity, and it is not a separate problem you happen to have alongside ADHD.
This course is about the speed. Not making you feel less — making the gap between feeling and responding wide enough to fit a decision in.
The course map
Six lessons, in order.
5 lessons · work at your own pace
- 01
Why It Arrives at Full Volume
Most people get a warning bar before the feeling. Yours often starts at the top.
11 min · Listen first
02Rejection, Criticism and the Sting
Why a mild correction can feel like being dismantled — and what the honest evidence actually says.
12 min · Listen first
03The Pause Is Not Calm
You do not need to feel peaceful. You need ninety seconds between the feeling and the send button.
12 min · Listen first
04The Load Underneath
Most 'overreactions' are ordinary reactions stacked on top of a body that is already at capacity.
11 min · Listen first
05Recovery and Repair
What happens after the wave decides how much it costs — in relationships and in self-concept.
12 min · Listen first
What's inside every lesson
Understand.
Try.
Keep.
- Listen first
- A short spoken introduction before you read a word.
- Learn
- What's actually happening, in plain language.
- Try this
- One thing to do today, written as instructions not advice.
- Quick win
- Something under five minutes, for the days you have nothing.
- Notice
- Interactive prompts that shape what the course gives you back.
- Research says
- Honest translation, no invented studies.
- Keep
- Three takeaways and a tool you can save to My ADHDier.
Tools built into the course
Things you make, not things you read.
Lesson 01
Map Your Wave
The shape your emotion takes, written down while calm.
Interactive + printable
Lesson 03
Ninety Seconds of Space
A physical exit and a line that buys you time.
Interactive + printable
Lesson 04
Lower the Baseline
Find the load underneath the reaction.
Interactive
Lesson 05
The Recovery Kit
Repair, self-talk and everything you built here on one page.
Interactive + printable
One course, one price, yours to keep
$49 USD.
No subscription.
Lifetime access, every tool, and everything you make saved into My ADHDier.
Where this comes from
Shaw et al., 2014
Meta-analytic support for emotional dysregulation as a frequent feature of ADHD across the lifespan.
DSM-5-TR / ICD-11
Neither manual includes 'rejection sensitive dysphoria' as a diagnosis; the experience is real, the label is informal shorthand.
Barkley, Executive Functions
Describes emotional self-regulation as part of executive functioning, not an unrelated trait.
ADHDier courses are educational. They are not a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a replacement for individual clinical advice.