I am looking for one word to describe an ability that does more harm than good to the one having the ability.
For example, an artist who has so much to express that it drives him mad. Or a scientist who is so brilliant and ahead of his time that he is never appreciated. Or a precocious child who becomes a troublemaker because he is always bored.
The sentence I was trying to form went something like:
The scientist's brilliance turned out to be ___{adjective}___ for him. OR
The artist's extraordinary sensitivity to beauty __{adverb}__ drove him crazy.