Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Losing giftedness? Need help!

-Deleted by user-

Work hard. Don't worry about "giftedness". You still are who you always were. If you think you might have depression (losing your sense of humour and being unhappy make it sound like a possibility), go and see a doctor, and of course, make sure you're doing basic stuff to take care of yourself like sleeping, eating sensibly and exercising - the brain won't work properly if the body isn't well.

http://www.learning-theories.com/self-theories-dweck.html

Read about incremental theory to battle your learned helplessness you got from having an entity theory of intelligence.  (link above). Then get to work challenging yourself.  Wildly innaccurate mistakes means you're learning something new.  Great job!

If you haven't read about imposter syndrome, here it is:
It's fairly common in highly capable people.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/imposter.htm

It comes from a poor fit in school.  Here's more along those lines.
http://www.portage.k12.in.us/cms/li...685/pdfs/April/Whatachilddoesntlearn.pdf

Whatever you think you've lost is only on the back burner while you do something else.  It's all still in there.  You know many of us found these things about how giftedness is believed to work after we had our children.  You're prodigiously finding your metacognition.

-Deleted by user-

If you're looking to recapture that feeling of being gifted, I recommend you find something new to learn. Try out a new genre of fiction, or better yet, pick up some of the classics. Take up a musical instrument. Learn a new sport. Investigate the fact and fiction behind some compelling historical event. Teach yourself a foreign language.

What you pick doesn't matter, as long as it's something interesting to you, and it's challenging.