The challenges smart and creative people encounter--from scientific researchers, genius award winners, to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics--often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness, and despair.

Specifically, the challenges that smart people face, including:
"racing brain syndrome"living in an anti-intellectual culturefinding ideas worth lovingdealing with boredom and hypersensitivityfinding meaning in their lives and their workstruggling to achieve success

In "Why Smart People Hurt," psychologist Dr. Eric Maisel draws on his...