By Deborah Ward — 2014
Boosting your mood, your health and your creativity can be a walk in the park.
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In a work world dominated by automation, digitalization, and increasing incivility, the need for one group of workers, those whom I call “sensitive strivers,” has never been greater.
Can neurodiversity proponents keep the notion of mental pathology?
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The aspects that make them most creative may also be their biggest risk.
Conceptions of identities are complex. We have a number of identities that manifest themselves in different environments or as composite forms of background experience. So, do neurodiverse conditions like autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and bipolar really comprise a part of a person’s identity?
Anecdotal observations from my own dealings.
Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues. Freeman and California-Berkeley psychology professor Sheri Johnson decided to take a deeper look at the issue.
When research psychologist and psychotherapist Elaine Aron published The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, many people felt a jolt of recognition.
Highly sensitive people might be different from the general population, but they are different in a way that could be useful—and perhaps crucial—to the function of society.