By Sharon Lind. Key areas for gifted adults include acknowledging gifts; identity development; permission to be growing; overexcitabilities; coping skills.
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Being exceptionally creative, intelligent, intense http://highability.org
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By Lisa Erickson, MS, LMHC I’ve been thinking about varieties of perfectionism since having a discussion with a gifted trauma survivor. It became clear that some of their perfectionism was an expression of giftedness and some was related to family of origin issues. Same outcome, different sources. Does the source of perfectionism matter? I think it does. By understanding the differences we can clarify what can be embraced and managed, and what can be healed. Different sources, different strategies. 
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Video excerpts from the SENGinar (a webinar by SENG): "Understanding Overexcitabilities – The Joys and the Challenges" - presented by Susan Daniels, P...
Description from the SENG site: Overexcitabilites – psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational and emotional – are often presented as personality traits and behaviors to be managed in terms of interactions at home and at school.
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Even people with exceptional talents can feel insecure and struggle with low self-esteem. Many think they are a fraud who will be found out.
Meryl Streep, for example, has said, “I have varying degrees of confidence and self-loathing…. “You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent… Or that you’re boring and they’re going to find out that you don’t know what you’re doing.” This is not an isolated feeling or an issue for only a few talented people. Over the many years of researching creative people and reading many interviews with high ability people, I have seen quotes like Streep’s showing up often.
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A number of people with exceptional abilities have used drugs and alcohol as self-medication to ease the pain of their sensitivity, or as a way to enhance thinking and creativity. Sometimes they risk addiction.
Beethoven reportedly drank wine about as often as he wrote music, and was an alcoholic or at least a problem-drinker. Among the many other artists who have used drugs, alcohol or other substances are Aldous Huxley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Allen Ginsberg, composers Beethoven and Modest Musorgski, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, and Tennessee Williams. At least five U.S. writers who won the Nobel Prize for Literature have been considered alcoholics.
Mason Stryhas Evans's curator insight,
January 17, 2016 5:45 PM
This article links many talented people to alcohol, and how they have used it to be creative, it offers personal quotes from many very talented people and why they have used alcohol and drugs hand and hand with creativity. |
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"George Harrison's life as a creation of personality. ... For psychologist and theorist Kazimierz Dabrowski...personality meant something quite different, requiring us to suspend our usual understanding of personality and replace it with something else entirely. According to Dabrowski, a personality is something that we give ourselves, that we can create and shape, especially in adulthood, through continual change.
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Related article: Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development For Exceptional Individuals, By Elizabeth Mika http://talentdevelop.com/articles/TOPDAAM1.html ---- Page with more articles and other resources: Dabrowski / advanced development http://talentdevelop.com/Dabrowski.html ---- Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HighAbility
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Lily Cole was bullied and thinks it was because some kids bully sensitive children. Research indicates a large portion of gifted students are bullied.
She comments, “I was bullied because I have red hair, although actually, I think I was bullied because some kids bully sensitive children."
A report from Purdue University a few years ago said “Bullying in the gifted-student population is an overlooked problem that leaves many of these students emotionally shattered, making them more prone to extreme anxiety, dangerous depression and sometimes violence.”
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Many multitalented people feel inspired to pursue multiple creative projects, often at the same time. One potential downside is physical and emotional burnout.
Jennifer Westfeldt wrote, produced and acted in “Kissing Jessica Stein” and “Ira & Abby.” For her new movie “Friends With Kids,” she not only wrote the screenplay, acted and produced (along with other people, including her long time partner, actor Jon Hamm), she also directed the “two-year, round-the-clock endeavor” as a Los Angeles Times article describes it – not an uncommonly demanding schedule for movies. “I must have been crazy to have donned so many hats,” Westfeldt said. “It made good sense for me to direct it, since I was involved in every aspect anyway. But I’m not sure I’d ever do it again.”
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From
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An ambitious new study suggests a surprising link between a child's IQ and his use of illegal substances as an adult...
In my article "Gifted, Talented, Addicted," I speculate that a number of people with exceptional abilities have used drugs and alcohol as self-medication to ease the pain of their sensitivity, or as a way to enhance thinking and creativity.
Mason Stryhas Evans's curator insight,
January 17, 2016 5:55 PM
This article answered the question Are smart kids more likely to use drugs? Yes. A study conducted by British officials studied 8,000 kids as they grew up and tested there IQ levels and compared it to drug use, and yes, people with higher IQ's are more likely to used any form of drugs and experiment than those of lower IQ's. |
