Emotional Intensity in Gifted Adults

Friday, May 15, 2020

Emotional intensity is an attribute many of us spend a lifetime coping with, successfully and not so successfully. One day, or one hour, you have overwhelming feelings of intense anguish or burdening sorrow that bring you to your knees and leave you questioning how you can possibly live through the depth of your pain. The next day or the very next hour, your emotions, an ever-swinging pendulum, sweep back to the polar opposite of the despair you were enduring before.

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Gifted, Empathic, Emotionally Intense, and Highly Sensitive

Monday, May 4, 2020

Trusting my ability to read other people and their situations is something I need to accept and honor. As I look back on meaningful, traumatic, or momentous occasions where I intuited the situation or the person correctly, I should be confident in my empathic ability. If I’m honest, my empathy crosses over into the unknown, and my fact- and science-based thinking doesn’t set foot into pseudoscientific phenomena. I can only accept that my unnatural ability to perceive and intuit comes from my gift of empathy.

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