Website review: GiftedBooks.com - Guiding Gifted Le...
fikcio discovered this in Psychology
•72 reviews since May 4, 2007
psychology, depression, mental-health
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fikcio discovered 15 months ago- "It has been my experience that gifted and talented persons are more likely to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression. Although an episode of existential depression may be precipitated in anyone by a major loss or the threat of a loss which highlights the transient nature of life, persons of higher intellectual ability are more prone to experience existential depression spontaneously"
- asianschool rated 5 months ago
- nice site
- mdyoke rated 7 months ago
- Existential depression. I didn't know there was a specific name for this state of mind.
- cwlodarczyk rated 7 months ago
- I was classed as a gifted child. I can see exactly where this article is coming from. Take a look around you - it IS depressing at times. From the page: "Because gifted children are able to consider the possibilities of how things might be, they tend to be idealists. However, they are simultaneously able to see that the world is falling short of how it might be. Because they are intense, gifted children feel keenly the disappointment and frustration which occurs when ideals are not reached. Similarly, these youngsters quickly spot the inconsistencies, arbitrariness and absurdities in society and in the behaviors of those around them. Traditions are questioned or challenged. For example, why do we put such tight sex-role or age-role restrictions on people? Why do people engage in hypocritical behaviors in which they say one thing and then do another? Why do people say things they really do not mean at all? Why are so many people so unthinking and uncaring in their dealings with others? How much difference in the world can one person's life make?"
- Emmers rated 7 months ago
- This happens to me at least weekly. I have learned to shake it off in most cases but when i am particularly vulnerable i have a complete breakdown and often end up bawling and contemplating suicide (though it is always just a thought; i have never attempted suicide during one of these crises). Sometimes, ignorance really is bliss...
- guanophore rated 8 months ago
- as the mother of a gifted, sensitive, depressed 12yo who has had numerous existential crises, i found this useful, if somewhat superficial. ultimately, however, i agree with the notions that 1) touch is vitally important and 2) identifying with the words/lives of others can provide hope and motivation. the langston hughes poem is particularly apropos.
- SketchSepahi rated 9 months ago
- This makes a lot of sense to me. I was about nine or ten the first time I asked my mother why life seemed so meaningless.
- Morbo187 rated 9 months ago
- I give it a positive because it's interesting, but it is unsubstantiated by anything scientific, it is at best an account of what this PhD can conclude from his own experience. Not saying it is untrue, but we have to be careful, such a field as "gifted children", in psychology, can be very profitable by exploiting the tendency for parents to see their children as extremely gifted, or our own narcissism. That text may very well be valid. However, let's be careful when reading things like that. It'll touch most people because 1-Many tend to think they are gifted 2-Most people will be depressed sometime, and within these periods of time, will think of the meaning of life, how it is all unfair, etc. Anyone with a mix of self-esteem and philosophical thought can relate to that.
- ForrestCroce rated 10 months ago
- From the page: "there is a frightening freedom regarding how one chooses to live one's life"
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