Emotional Health & Creative People

Stress does not help performance. As a matter of fact, stress makes you stupid. Many accomplished people use meditation for stress relief.

Overwhelm can be based on having too much input to deal with, and so many inner and outer ideas and sensations.

A number of actors and other performers talk about dealing with stage fright, or experiencing other kinds of anxiety and emotional health challenges.

As highly sensitive people, we may experience many positive aspects of the trait, but we can also be more reactive and vulnerable to stress and anxiety... that can impact our lives and creative expression.

Judith Orloff, M.D. is a psychiatrist, UCLA professor, and leads workshops on intuition, energy, and medicine.

In her book Emotional Freedom, she writes: "For mild to moderate depression, I often suggest 5-HTP, a natural precursor to serotonin...Another treatment is St. John's wort..."

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Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, and Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, are experts at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society.

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Judith Orloff, M.D. is a psychiatrist, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, and leads workshops on intuition, energy, and medicine.

She thinks “Fear is the biggest energy thief there is. A master seducer and gigantic source of negative energy, fear shamelessly robs of us of everything good and powerful, preys on our vulnerabilities.”

Your brain is the control center and that is where the change needs to happen to reduce anxiety.

Anyone can feel overwhelmed from too many demands and challenges, but creative and highly sensitive people may be especially vulnerable.

Gigi Hadid has been part of a Victoria’s Secret runway show, won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards, and acted in several projects including the Taylor Swift: Bad Blood video.

But a Glamour magazine article notes that her confidence can be eroded by anxiety