Gifted Adults and High-Functioning Depression: Not Waving but Drowning (audio essay)
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This episode explores the concept of high functioning depression and the internal split that can occur in gifted adults as a coping mechanism.
Full text: https://eggshelltherapy.com/high-functioning-depression/ (Recorded with human voice) We can think of the mechanism of high functioning depression this way: At some point in your life, perhaps because the mental burden on you had become overwhelming, your psyche created an internal split to cope. In high functioning depression, what develops is a division between your "high functioning part" and your "depressed part." The high functioning part is what you use to cope with demands fr...
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