Is the thread from 2013 or am I reading wrong?
I can give some more detailed personal thoughts on mental health and giftedness, (mostly through sharing my own experiences and hypotheses about giftedness I have derived from it). I have spent a bit of time thinking about this.
But it might get a bit lengthy (even if I shorten each point as much as possible), so I will only if OP is (still) interested. (Or maybe I should open a new "mental health and giftedness" thread? Anyone interested?).
In the mean time, I'll still complement indigo's list of resources, and throw Alice Miller's
The Drama of the Gifted Child into the mix.
We had been discussing it
in another thread .
In a nutshell, she develops a (somehow psychodynamical) theory of how being emotionally sensitive as a child can result in feelings of either depression or grandiosity in adulthood, when growing up in family constellations where the parents show certain types of emotional dysregulations.
