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Updates to post Perspectives on depression, emotional distress, creative people, and emotional wellbeing.
Giftedness can add risk factors for emotional distress
Psychologist, author, and associate professor Gail Post, Ph.D. notes that although "depression, anxiety and self-defeating behaviors are universal, giftedness poses specific challenges that bring with it several risk factors for emotional distress.
"Gifted children and adults are not more prone to psychological problems; rather, emotional distress among gifted individuals may be precipitated, heightened or modified by these gifted traits: Overthinking...Perfectionism..."
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Strategy to counteract our negativity bias
As Therapist and author Julie Bjelland (among others) notes, "The brain has a negativity bias which means we have more electrical activity in our brain when we're exposed to things that are negative."
She writes that this brain tendency toward negativity "has to do with the evolution of humans in general because we used to be living out on the land and could be attacked by a lion at any moment."
And, she notes, "that happens even more so in highly sensitive people."
One of the strategies she suggests to counteract negativity bias is to keep a positivity journal.
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