The Overstimulated Heart: Understanding the Emotional Life of Your ADHD Brain (The Overstimulated Series) by Dr Rebecca Lewis

You've been told your whole life that you're too sensitive, too emotional, too reactive. Every time you spiral after a text that goes unanswered, every time criticism lands like a physical blow, every time you find yourself completely undone by something no one else seems to notice, you've wondered if something is fundamentally wrong with you. It isn't. You have an ADHD nervous system. And no one ever gave you the framework to understand it. The Overstimulated Heart is the guide you didn't know existed. A clinically grounded, deeply compassionate roadmap to the emotional life of the ADHD brain. Written by Dr. Rebecca Lewis, surgeon and women's health specialist, this book explains not just what is happening inside your nervous system, but why, and what you can actually do about it. Inside, you'll discover: Why rejection hits so hard: the neuroscience of rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), why disapproval triggers a pain response that feels completely out of proportion, and how to stop letting it make all your decisions What emotional flooding actually is: why you lose access to your regulated self mid-conflict, and the body-first tools that bring you back when reasoning can't Read more