Another area to explore: is it possible that she is actually being challenged and until now has never had to face a challenge and never learned those coping skills? Happened to many of us who didn't get appropriate instruction in school. But it happened when we hit college and had no idea how to buckle down, study, etc.
This is SO me. I have the feeling that when I get to actual college, I'm going to have to learn not the stuff for classes, but how to study. I have never been tested for being gifted, but it is strongly suspected. I went to a camp this summer for a month to learn Arabic, and it was the hardest thing I've ever done. Language comes naturally to me, but I actually had to (God forbid)
study. Honestly, if given the choice, I would choose to not be as intelligent as I am. Makes life a heckuva lot harder than it needs to be.
