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How mental health symptoms can be reframed as positive - Chris Wells on Overexcitability

How mental health symptoms can be reframed as positive - Chris Wells on Overexcitability | Emotional Health & Creative People | Scoop.it
The work of Kazimierz Dabrowski provides a framework to understand the supersensitivity or overexcitability frequently found in the gifted.
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Emotional Health Program for Creative, Gifted, Highly Sensitive People | High Ability

Emotional Health Program for Creative, Gifted, Highly Sensitive People | High Ability | Emotional Health & Creative People | Scoop.it
The Social-Emotional ACES Home Video Program is designed to help creative, intense, sensitive people be skilled experts in the Social-Emotional arena.
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Robin Williams: Intensity Is Not Pathology - The Creative Mind

Robin Williams: Intensity Is Not Pathology - The Creative Mind | Emotional Health & Creative People | Scoop.it

The tone of many responses to the death of Robin Williams support the insidious "Crazy Artist" mythology: that artistic creativity depends on mental disorder.


But, as psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman commented, his “comedic genius was a result of many factors, including his compassion, playfulness, divergent thinking, imagination, intelligence, affective repertoire, and unique life experiences. In contrast, his suicide was strongly influenced by his mental illness. This romanticism of mental illness needs to stop.”

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Gifted, creative people - mental health and misdiagnosis

Gifted, creative people - mental health and misdiagnosis | Emotional Health & Creative People | Scoop.it

Psychiatric misdiagnosis and consequent unnecessary or even destructive medication for “troubling” symptoms is an issue that impacts many creative, gifted and talented people.

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Alan Turing: Exceptional Intellect and Asperger’s

Alan Turing: Exceptional Intellect and Asperger’s | Emotional Health & Creative People | Scoop.it

British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing led a group of other brilliant codebreakers, including Joan Clarke, at Bletchley Park outside London during WWII to crack the German’s Enigma code.

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