Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals
Yes.“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?”
Submitted by kterrebonne.
I wasn’t diagnosed as gifted, but my psychologist says if my ADD was diagnosed earlier in my life, I would probably would have had a gifted IQ. So now I sit depressed, unemployed, medicated, and lonely because the world seems to predictable, gloomy, and purposely unfair. Yeah meds!
