From Dr. Sasha Hamdani, the psychiatrist and ADHD expert with more than one million followers on Tiktok as @thepsychdoctormd, comes an eye-opening guide to an overlooked form of anxiety.

Overdramatic. Emotional. Too sensitive. These are some of the labels applied to people whose responses to seemingly low-stakes scenarios—an unanswered text, a hint of sarcasm—feel disproportionate. Soon the spiraling ensues, and what began as a miscue becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The question is: Why? For board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Sasha Hamdani, this was personal. She had always struggled with emotional sensitivity, and in her work with patients—particularly women like her with ADHD—she saw brilliant, confident people beset by crippling feelings of rejection. Now, in Too Sensitive, she shares the urgent message she wishes someone had told her: It’s not you, it’s your biology.

Emotional sensitivity begins in the nervous system: some of us are more attuned to subtle social cues. This can be both a superpower and a curse—but it is, ultimately, a manifestation of a chemical conversation taking place in the brain and body.

For some people, this hypersensitivity takes the form of rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD). Those with RSD experience interactions with an overwhelming intensity. In Too Sensitive, Dr. Hamdani offers practical tools for managing emotional sensitivity in everyday life.

Eye-opening, perspective-shifting, and infused with compassion, Too Sensitive is a must-read guide for anyone hoping to transform emotional sensitivity from a source of pain into a powerful tool.