Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals - What is it? Why does it disproportionately affect our gifted youth? Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children - Gifted children have unique emotional needs. In addition to their skills and success, they are typically more lonely, more perfectionistic, and in more pain. Emotional Needs of the Gifted - Examines the social aspects of being gifted. SENGifted.org: Gifted Students with Attention Deficits: Fact and/or Fiction? Or, Can We See the Forest for the Trees? - As the frequency of school disabilities attributed to attention deficits continues to soar, there are increasing reasons to believe that many bright youngsters claimed to suffer from ADHD and other problems of concentration may be misdiagnosed. Bright Star - Black Sky - A phenomenological study of depression as a window into the psyche of the gifted adolescent. Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities - A layman's explanation by Stephanie Tolan.