The Drama Of The Gifted Child

The Drama Of The Gifted Child will help you unearth your sad, suppressed memories from childhood and teach you how to confront them so you can avoid passing them on to your children, release yourself from the pains of your past, and finally live a life of fulfillment.

Do you ever wonder why so many of the greatest creative minds struggle with mental illness? You’d think that if they had all that success and intelligence they would be happy, right?

Unfortunately, a sense of grandiosity, while good for creating, can also be a sign of repressed emotions from childhood, which can cause depression.

Many elite performers had demanding parents. This made them expect a lot of themselves, which is why they achieved greatness. But it also made them sacrifice their feelings, which leads to mental illness.

At some point, these people, whose self-worth comes from their striving for greatness, reach their peak. Then they can only go down, and they tend to do so rapidly.

Researchers studied this to discover that manic depression is correlated with intense pressure to perform and with parents who withhold love if their children fail. Because it’s impossible to avoid failure entirely, these kids never learned how to deal with the emotions that come with failure.

In other words, depression comes from repressing emotions. It happens when the child inside gets to a point when they can’t win acceptance with accomplishments any longer.

And when these kids grow up to have their own kids, these things can begin to affect them too.

Parents want the best for their children. They even want their kids to have better lives than they did. This is especially true for parents who themselves had a troubled, emotionally-repressed childhood. But in trying to give their kids better lives than they had, these adults can actually end up doing more harm than good. By working to help their kids feel the love they never did, they actually end up putting new kinds of stress on them without knowing it. The problem with trying to give your kids everything is that they eventually start to notice that you want them to be happy all the time. That means they’ll try to not show “negative” emotions like pain just to please their parents. And these patterns just put them right into the negative feeling-repression cycle that their parents went through. This means that adults need to heal their own psychological troubles before raising their own kids. If they don’t, they’ll just give the same problems to their offspring. Solving these issues involves accepting emotions as normal, even the “bad” ones. Then, parents must learn to accept their kids just as they are, weaknesses…