The Advantage of Being a Highly Sensitive and Gifted Child Nobody Tells You | Dr. Gabor Maté

The Advantage of Being a Highly Sensitive and Gifted Child Nobody Tells You | Dr. Gabor Maté Are you or someone you know a highly sensitive child? In this eye-opening video, Dr. Gabor Maté delves into the unique challenges and strengths that come with being a gifted and sensitive child. Discover the surprising truth about sensitivity, as Dr. Maté explores how these children experience emotions more intensely, leading to both extraordinary abilities and significant struggles.

Join us as we unpack the origins of the word "sensitive" and how it profoundly impacts the lives of gifted children. Learn about the emotional turmoil they often face and why embracing their sensitivity can be a powerful trait rather than a burden. Through insightful discussions and practical tips, this video aims to validate the feelings of those who may feel like outsiders in a world that often misunderstands them.

Key topics include:

The connection between sensitivity and childhood trauma
How to prevent trauma and promote emotional well-being
Insights from Dr. Maté's influential book, "The Prisoners of Childhood"
Strategies for parents and caregivers to support gifted, sensitive children
Whether you're a parent, educator, or someone passionate about understanding the complexities of giftedness, this video is a must-watch. Unlock the potential of sensitivity and help empower the next generation to thrive!

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Summary:
15s 🌟 Sensitivity & Creativity. Dr. Maté explores the link between sensitivity, rooted in "sere," and its correlation with creativity, emphasizing potential emotional struggles.

2:01 📚 Gifted Child & Adaptations
"The Gifted Child" adapts to stress, shaping defensive modes from childhood experiences. Dr. Maté reflects on personal struggles through insights from the book.

6:33 💔 Dealing with Dissociation
Dissociation, an automatic childhood response, wires into the developing brain. Dr. Maté delves into the struggle to connect with oneself and the link to dissociation.

9:19 🌐 Society's View on Sensitivity
Society often stigmatizes sensitivity, hindering acceptance for highly sensitive individuals. While traditional societies valued sensitivity, modern views often label it as a weakness.

11:03 🚫 Overcoming Taboos & Family Dynamics
Overcoming addiction taboo depends on the family's readiness to confront dysfunctions. Dr. Maté advises addressing the family without blame and expressing a desire for reconnection.

13:10 🌈 Embracing Sensitivity for Growth
Embracing sensitivity is a powerful tool for personal growth. Dr. Maté encourages sharing this uplifting message and embracing the inner gifted child for a fulfilling life.

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💖 Who is Dr Gabor Mate?
Dr. Gabor Maté is a retired physician, bestselling author, and well-known speaker who is in high demand for his knowledge of addiction, trauma, stress, and childhood development. He is the author of four best-selling books.

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[yourinnerchildmatters]

Thank you very much for watching! If you’ve ever felt like being sensitive is a burden, you’re not alone. Dr. Gabor Maté shares amazing insights that help us understand the power of sensitivity. It’s time to embrace our unique strengths! I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. How has sensitivity shaped your life or the lives of those around you? Let’s support each other in this journey!
Don't forget to share this video with anyone who might benefit from it. Together, we can create a community of understanding and growth! #SensitivePeople #DrGaborMate #EmbraceSensitivity #PersonalGrowth #CommunitySupport #MentalHealthAwareness

[imamomwifedaughter]

Sensitive people are so needed right now, don't be afraid or embarrassed to show your true authentic inner goodness to the world, it's truly your superpower if you want it to be.

[jenp]

Being a highly sensitive person and having a good long term memory in a family with emotionally negligent parents who drank too much and too often made my life a challenge. The Drama of the gifted child helped me a lot to understand myself and my children. A retreat with Gabor in early 2022 helped the many pieces of my life and therapy over the years fall into place.

[wormwood]

Being sensitive also means you are intuitive, which is not just having a sensation but recognizing what that feeling is trying to tell you. For me this has resulted in escaping multiple life threatening biopsies by stopping/shrinking tumors, requesting cat scans where multiple tiny tumors showed up, intuiting causation and remedies for tumors including end stage fibrosarcoma in my cat who fully recovered after 4 months of diet and supplements and fortelling the cat would recover...everyone thought I was in denial.
We all have such abilities but we are taught to ignore them. So yes we feel more sensations and pain but then we can use them to learn, grow and heal which is what they are there for.

[keliaos]

I never saw my own sensitivity as a "gift" (more like a curse, bc it's so much for me to handle) or in the way Dr. Maté describes it. it really resonates and touched me deeply. Thank you for sharing this.

[lillydimartino]

My narc mom always said i was too sensitive... her saying it made me feel defective.
Thruout my life, i saw my sensitivity as a blessing and a curse.

[spiralsun]

When I began to understand the difficulties of trauma, I began to understand my parents and their parents too. To understand everything related to evolution and our lives in the world. Thats the challenge for truly sensitive people and you can be a legacy and culmination of a lot of subconscious things absorbed into your patterns early on. Habits are hard hard walls sometimes when they are woven subconsciously across your potential partly by the intractable pains of existence. Sometimes just wanting to be heard and accepted and not always misunderstood is a symptom of the deep habit of understanding others too much. ❤

[lulumoon]

DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD was my first exposure decades ago to being acknowledged.

[dianaoliver]

So helpful!! Today, at 68, I will begin embracing & honoring my sensitivity vs. hating and battling it for the pain it's caused. TY. ❤❤

[MarieGear-wi]

I never knew until I was an adult that I was a HSP. I thought I was just in the wrong family, I didn’t fit in anywhere!!

[_Tarot]

To have patience with oneself is to have self-love 🌹

[brinihawraa]

Im highly sensitive I suffered à lot and still suffer I feel everything its sometimes à gift and sometimes à curse but im happy that there are people like me so we can understand each other. I spent 37 years of isolation because of that

[anishapatel]

Yes I believe sensitivity and creativity are linked .

[moondust]

I know a child who is extremely sensitive to pain, he is hypersensitive he has been diagnosed on the high spectrum of autism. And yes he is highly creative, extremely creative with an incredible imagination. It’s true - sensitive people feel pain more and they are the highly creative ones. It’s a blessing and a curse, a paradox.

[brennadickinson]

Hsp, gifted, creative, extroverted, curious, adventurous. insightful as a young, very young child, in a family with talented and damaged parents. I learned to hide my gifts and became the Invisible Child. Most of my life has been devoted to overcoming my childhood of endless putdowns and criticisms and neglect.

Through AA and the 12 Step programme I've recovered a lot of my original self and developed a better view of myself and made a lot of peace. Now I am more introverted when alone and still extroverted when with people. I accept myself better and nurture myself. Still curious and love learning new things, and I'm pretty grounded. Done some forgiving too, of myself and others.

77 now and embracing old age as just another stage of life. And now I can admit that having an extremely precocious child in the family could be very hard work. Oh, the endless questions! Lol!

[Llorali]

You don’t prevent the trauma, you ride it and GROW. With much adversity comes much strength. How can beauty and greatness come through the gifts without struggle and adversity? It’s actually incredibly beautiful. My experience being hsp with a deep history of it throughout my family - highly gifted, and still working out in my 40’s how to use it to bless others. With the added stress, if not identity shaping severe child sexual abuse that I still have no memory of, but has caused me to dissociate throughout my childhood and adult life. So much so that I never recognized the obvious signs of the abuse. Because of the adversity, I have a greater scope for the big picture. And I will trust the process as it unfolds.

[AmberDeAnn]

I loved this video. I feel exactly like that. The more I get into my recovery from PTSD, the more I turn into the arts -- poetry-art-theatre-comedy- to heal, to feel, to find me and it feels great. My addiction was angry, sugar, avoiding people (isolation). Now I Have to heal by social skills and find a way to connect better with others. Thanks for airing this interivew and thanks Gabor Mate for your honesty.

[lordemed]

This is me...exactly...it ain't easy

[ModelSisters]

My grandmother said I was the most sensitive child she'd ever known; she said she feared I would be weak and dependent, so was surprised when I turned out to be the most independent one of all. Sensitivity is a gift, but also a burden.

[simev]

That last advice given by Dr GM in this video really hits that spot in the heart. To summon the courage to bring forth her own weakness without blaming her dysfunctional family who were the real culprit for her being the proverbial sacrificial lamb. That would her complete redemption if that can be made to happen.