This post explains why emotionally intense people benefit from developing a broader feeling vocabulary and offers family activities to build it, including posting feeling words, choosing a word of the day, acting out or drawing feelings, finding synonyms, and ordering words by intensity to improve communication and emotional understanding.
The article explains existential depression among gifted individuals, who are prone due to intense reflection, idealism, isolation and multi-potentiality. It describes how anger can evolve into depression, highlights risks for youth, and recommends understanding, relationships, touch, bibliotherapy and ongoing support.
Gifted children often experience intense emotional sensitivity that can be misunderstood in school settings. Schools may discourage emotional expression, leading to masking, isolation, or behavioral issues. Parents should support healthy integration of emotions, encourage outlets, model constructive responses, and provide space for imagination, nature, and resilient purpose.
The article argues gifted individuals are diverse and cautions against generalizations. It explains the ‘splitter’ versus ‘lumper’ perspective for examining individual characteristics and points readers to the SENG website for resources on topics such as giftedness levels, adolescence, introversion, intensity, attention deficits, depression, and adults.
