Existential Depression in Gifted Children

Post by molbioguy » Thu, Jul 25, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

molbioguy wrote: post #180

tokenadult wrote: post #157

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The concentration or severity of existential depression in gifted children is well documented if not well known. Where is there any evidence WHATEVER that the severity of existential depression is any different for gifted people than it is for anybody else? I know Jim Webb, and I'm pickled in the writings of the gifted education movement. (I'll be spending the following two weeks presenting parent seminars on gifted…

"Existential depression" is not a euphemism, it has a specific meaning. While, I do not have the primary references to back up my point [so I guess you may take me to task for that] I too am very much immersed in the gifted field. There is most definitely a consensus among the people who deal with gifted children , especially their emotional needs, that existential depression hits earlier and more often in these kids…

Post by fexl » Fri, Jul 26, 2013, 1:13 PM UTC

Post by eli_gottlieb » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 1:07 PM UTC

mietek wrote: post #166

simonsarris wrote: post #31

While I've read a fair bit of existentialist works I've never seen this term, but I think I know what it means. I also think the article would be improved by just titling itself "Existential Depression". The narrow focus is odd, even if true, and might serve better as a footnote. There's the strangest feeling I come across from time to time, and I think "come across" is the only good way to describe it. Everyone has…

I, too, share this sentiment. "The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics — perhaps the most pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought." — Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia [1] As I understand, over the centuries, the usual coping mechanism for existential dread has been belief. Religion is often cynically thought to be a…