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Sep 07, 2012, 08:25 PM
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How can you distinguish?
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Sep 07, 2012, 08:43 PM
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Here's a good chart outlining the characteristics of gifted individuals:
http://www.cde.state.co.us/gt/downlo...Giftedness.pdf It is fairly impossible to come up with a list of characteristics of mental illness as there is such a wide variety of symptoms, but here is an interesting list of characteristics of good mental health that I came across: http://www.safmh.org.za/healthy.html Of course, it is quite possible to both be gifted and mentally ill too. One doesn't necessarily exclude the other. |
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Sep 08, 2012, 05:42 PM
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heres something I wrote a while back...
drifted and gifted ...and so what it takes time to really hate yourself! ...cant just happen in a day or two and the mind warps and displaces logic and undefines all definitions that regularity thrives on and is there really a place of magic? I am not done here by a long shot and shaft the meaningless nothingness of madness....give it a name call it something! call it me call it whatever the hell you want to call it... JUST CALL IT SOMETHING!!! I need something to adapt to!....something to hold onto and leave it up to me how I get a grip on it...as long as I am holding....blood bent purple bursting eyeballs focused on the reality of it all! hanging on!...hanging out!....just way out there....drifting floating breathless expanded lungs bubbling enormous gasps of comprehension! it don't get as complete as this the bipolar complexities thrashing my ribcage with emotional mental blitzed heartbeats! and......yeah it continues and it has not finished with me and I cannot stare harder at pain than shredding my feet treading over this unfamiliar home.....that I navigate..... do I have time to panic? or have I already done that and brought me here I did not fly upside down for nuthin! gnarled knuckles and twisted wrists and black toes curled tight amazing contortions displayed on the outside nevertheless dismembered from wrestling cerebral gymnastics.....leaps and spreadlegged.... I confess ...yes I am crazy!....superb dumb-founded.....found dumb..but I find none of this exciting... cannot find....who is looking?....everyone is looking...skulls hell bent! whats in your head ....thats where it all happens don't touch me get away far away in the cumulous .......you cloud my ideas.....hold me close but don't watch what I do I won't even look you must be nuts! caveman brain turbulence shatters any self control.....it's utter magnificence and listen to you your own mind hates me back and how wonderful is that symmetry? so what does nothing mean everything thats happened and beyond and keep going dont stop why did you stop it's fascination we all seek and screw me! we can all see where this is going but a shame it's already been......so my clumsy skeletal disjointed featureless abominable kaleidoscopic overwhelmed synaptic contagion will suffocate itself! or will it?.....do I pump in the magic galactic gas to enliven the beast? just breathing hurts me....shames me....magnifies me amplifies me.... disturbs me...re-creates me spinning whirlpool brainquake ...its so tempting to define it!......crap man gotta give it a name.... visceral unreal reality ....that will do looking....wondering....can my illness hope?,,,,to improve.. |
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Sep 09, 2012, 12:40 PM
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Everyone is "gifted", has interests and abilities in certain areas and not as much in others; it's not whether one is gifted that matters but how one uses and trains oneself in one's areas of interest. A mental problem is something that gets in the way of expressing one's self fully and in a balanced way, a need for a defense against anxiety or other negative affect. If one has an ability, it should not be focused on exclusively; a math savant, for example, is someone with an autism spectrum disorder (or something like it) and not a balanced individual which one should strive to be so one isn't lopsided
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Sep 09, 2012, 02:21 PM
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I don't honestly know. By the chart thing that farmergirl posted, I am less gifted now than last year. Is it possible to lose your gifts?
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Sep 09, 2012, 02:45 PM
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Quote:
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