I used to burst into tears when moaned at - just coz it meant I was wrong!!! What I HAVE since learnt, is none of us is perfect and my continuous tendency towards mistakes led me to greater comprehension of our dependence on God than would’ve been the case otherwise.

Ida…..
why is she repeating over and over again? 
Are you repeating the error? 
Or: 
does she think you are not understanding?

Perhaps if you acknowledged what she said and respond with :
“OK, thank you, I got the memo”

esp….  if you have made the correction in your job performance…

if she repeats the same thing…  ask her: ‘why?  ...we have already been thru this’.

Also, you might tell her that if she has a complaint about you, please register that with you in private.  You have a right to be respected in front of your peers.
Your peers should also expect the same treatment from your boss. 
(This is your evaluation of her job performance that you could put in writing, date it and lay it on her desk).

I’ve found that working in a larger setting is beneficial to my mental health. The big cheese isn’t always breathing down my neck:) I too am very sensitive to criticism, but I learned that it isn’t an attack on who I am only on what I did. So if you can’t change your boss or your job, the only thing left to do is work on how you react to others. Attitude is everything and if you let others get to you, it’s a lose-lose situation. Best wishes and fake it until you make it.

I’ve always taken criticism personally. I’ve gotten better about it over the years, but it’s taken a long time - and there’s still a better than even chance that I’ll respond “aggressively” as one person wrote in my 360 review. And since I don’t particularly like people as a whole, I seem to have a talent for saying the wrong (albeit true) thing with a less-than-necessary vehemence.

I’ve found working as a consultant to be very different. I get a lot less criticism, probably since they’re now paying for my outsider’s opinions - makes them instantly more important. Sure I have to document everything, but if they chose not to follow my suggestions and things go to hell? I still get paid. Then usually I’ll get paid again to rectify the situation!

As for your boss, it’s not her fault that she can’t think as fast as you and therefore criticizes things she doesn’t understand.

I do not do well with criticism at all.  Since I am 67 years old, I have always felt it was because my parents frequently criticized me for being careless, sloppy, lazy, etc.  When I was child, nobody ever heard of ADD or ADHD, so they didn’t know what my problem was.  I incorporated all of their criticism and believed it to be true.  Therefore, when I am criticized it reinforces my low self image.  Perhaps since others with ADD also have difficulty with being criticized, it is just be part of the disorder.

I am extremely sensitive to criticizm as well, especially when on the job.  I demand that if someone feels a need to criticize me, especially at work, that they do it in private.  This includes constructive criticizm as well.

Being overly sensitive is something I really wish that I could change about myself.  It plays out in many areas of my life.  I admit to feeling criticized by my b/f even though he doesn’t criticize me.  He is always saying, “Stop being so sensitive.”

However, I do find that socially and now in a classroom setting, I have gotten much better at not caring so much if someone doesn’t agree with me.  Even voicing my opinion has gotten easier, and asking those questions in class that I was always afraid to ask as a kid, for fearing others would think “I’m stupid.”  I am even willing to take leadership roles.  I’m thinking this is coming with age.  I’ll be 50 in a few weeks.

As a young child I had a horrible time with my fathers stict critizism , I also was a very very sensitive as a young child too .  In school I had a horrible time with other kids being crewel & mean to me ,  I knew as a young child in school that I was different compared to the rest of my class mates .  Now even today as an adult I am still very very senstive to critizism , especially when it comes from husband ,  not only does my husband suffer from ADHD himself he also suffers from OCD , which is ten times worse ,  my husband is very very critical about how things are done, how chores are done arround the house .  There are many times when my husband critizism has put me into tears , simply because he is soo anal about everything being perfect in every way ..

I am a 31 year old.  I have had ADD since I was very young.  Criticism is very hard to cope with.  On my job I constantly have calls from my boss where some one had problems or complaints about my work.  I find that it helps to talk to the person who is at the location I worked at the previous day.  It is odd at times.  However, my Boss has pointed out that this is appreciated by most of my coworkers.  I recently started taking ritalin.  I am aware it is only part of treating my issues.  However, I feel with coping strategies i will be much more succesful.  I recently completed graduate school and am looking for a major career change.  I am working now to ensure any job I have is succesful.