Maybe our Instagram photos are not liked.

Or our ideas are dismissed at work meetings.

Perhaps friends or loved ones make us feel badly because they are not available to spend time with us.

Life is full of rejection.

Rejection can also trigger physical symptoms.  The same area of the brain that feels physical pain is the part that experiences the pain of rejection.  And, yes, Tylenol, for example reduces the pain of rejection in studies.

Pain of rejection can be relived more intensely than physical pain.

Rejection can increase our tendency toward anger and aggression.

It temporarily reduces our IQ.

I knew rejection was bad but I didn’t know it was this bad until I read the evidence from Guy Winch, PhD.

You can imagine what losing your job can do to the pain of rejection.

The best way to deal with rejection is to reject the shame associated with it.

Shame is the universal feeling that results from rejection.

Be on the lookout for shame and zap it before it zaps you.

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