The Rejection Lab Gay Magazine “It is this truth about rejection, as corroborated by Hsu’s research on opioids, that most fascinates and disturbs me. No matter what we think or do, no matter how fake we know it to be, rejection’s going to hurt. We can’t make ourselves not care; we can’t control it; we can’t detach and feel nothing: it’s always going to hurt. Our brains and our bodies know that — and some of us will feel it a lot worse, and longer, than others do. If this is true for rejections that aren’t even real, how are we supposed to cope with the pain of rejections that are crushingly, devastatingly all too real?“ Back to Essays & Stories