Rejection sensitivity differentiates unipolar & BP

[ScottMentalPod]

I've never heard the term "rejection sensitivity".

http://www.news-medical.net/news/201312 ... ssion.aspx

"The team found that rejection sensitivity was common in patients with unipolar and bipolar depression regardless of current mood, but patients with bipolar disorder were more likely to have heightened rejection sensitivity when they were depressed."

“Educating patients and clinicians about the links between depression, rejection sensitivity, and pain during depression, and thereby normalizing these related experiences, might in itself help to reduce pain symptoms,” they say

[heathen1981]

Very interesting article. I have always had a particular strong sensitivity to rejection, but I do experience more of a heightened reaction when I'm depressed. When I'm manic, rejection barely affects me.