The Link Between Mental Health Disorder and Genius with Dr. Gail Saltz • X99
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- What a brain difference is, and what traits are associated with it.
- How to shift your focus from your diagnosis to your potential.
- How we can foster the qualities of geniuses and high achievers in our own lives.
Did you know there is an association between creativity and major mental disorders? And did you know this has been known for hundreds of years?
The ancient Greeks thought of both as "having been touched by the gods.” And Aristotle said, “There is no genius without having a touch of madness.”
So what does the science say? How can we transform the source of our struggles to be the origin of our greatest strengths?
That’s what we’re talking about today.
Our guest is Dr. Gail Saltz. She is a bestselling author of numerous books, serves as a Medical Expert for the Physicians for Human Rights, and is the host of the podcast “How Can I Help?”. Dr. Saltz is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the NY Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell School of medicine, a psychoanalyst with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and has a private practice in Manhattan.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love Premium, episode |
| 0:02.0 | episode is all about the link between mental health disorders and genius. |
| 0:08.0 | Genes are turned off and on and change with environment. |
| 0:14.0 | Doing what I'd like to call workarounds, |
| 0:16.3 | what are coping tools that you built |
| 0:18.9 | to manage some of the symptoms, |
| 0:21.4 | which is really you teaching your brain how to handle by working |
| 0:26.4 | around that neurocircuitary, probably creating stronger other neurocircuitary, |
| 0:31.8 | to manage the symptom, whether the symptoms attending or |
| 0:36.7 | organizing or remembering things or dampening impulsivity creates changes, not in the area where maybe let's say the wiring |
| 0:45.6 | was already different and difficult, but you know in other areas it's sort of like |
| 0:49.8 | think about when people have a stroke they can't speak right away or they can't move, they have |
| 0:54.5 | heavy parisis to start with. Rehab has to do with creating new connections that allow them to do those same behaviors, but via a different record. |
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| 1:32.4 | Did you know that there's an association between creativity and major mental disorders? |
| 1:37.0 | And this has been known for hundreds of years. |
| 1:41.0 | The ancient Greeks thought of both as having been touched by the gods, and Aristotle |
| 1:46.0 | said there is no genius without having a touch of madness. |
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