Presented in a question-and-answer format, this digest offers guidelines to help gifted students manage stress effectively. The following questions are considered: What is stress? How can a youngster experience stress when nothing bad is happening? Is a gifted student more likely to feel stress than others? What are some stresses on a gifted student? How can stress hurt a gifted student's self-esteem? How can it be stressful to have so much potential? How can gifted students cope with stress? How can one tell whether or not a gifted student is experiencing burnout? How can parents, teachers, and counselors reduce stress on gifted students? Among recommendations for coping with stress are changing the source of the stress, confronting the source of the stress, and getting regular physical exercise and sound nutrition. Students should be discouraged from escaping through alcohol, drugs, sleep, frequent illness, overeating, or starving themselves; and from aiming too low. A checklist is provided to identify the student experiencing burnout. Parents, teachers, and counselors are encouraged to reduce stress on gifted students by such measures as helping each gifted student develop a realistic self-concept and letting students live their own lives. Includes 10 references or resources. (DB)