Discovering “rejection therapy” I don’t think “doom scrolling” had been popularized at this time yet, but that’s what I was doing one day when I came across a couple of articles on “rejection therapy.” The general concept is to minimize the fear of rejection by having the experience of hearing “no” as much as possible. In April JVECC, The Vet Journal , Canadian Veterinary Journal , Veterinary Clinics of North America , and Vet Record rejected my papers. Rejection therapy: My turning point I decided to get out of the house and went to my first gay bar on purpose. Further reading What I learned from 100 days of rejection (Fast Company)https://www.fastcompany.com/3045858/what-i-learned-from-100-days-of-rejectionWhat is rejection therapy, and can it really heal social anxiety? Take the rejection therapy challenge (The Guardian)https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/24/if-you-are-hurt-by-rejection-then-take-the-rejection-therapy-challengeEwan Wolff, PhD, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM), (they/them), comes from Washington, DC originally and is a board-certified internal medicine specialist at BluePearl NE Portland.
