The Link Between Genius and Insanity

An anonymous reader writes in a story about the link between certain mental illnesses and high intelligence. "Genius and insanity may actually go together, according to scientists who found that mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are often found in highly creative and intelligent people. The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder. Bipolar sufferer Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinical psychologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said that findings of some 20 or 30 scientific studies confirms the idea of the 'tortured genius' or 'mad scientist.'"

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Reason for this

[physburn]

Psychiatrists hate people who are cleverer than themselves, and invent new diseases just to label them.

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Spoken like an idiot who thinks he is smart.

Humanity has periods of hundreds or thousands of years of going almost nowhere. Genius does not exist in a vacuum. "Intellectual theft" is when you take someone's bike cunningly - you cannot steal ideas.

Re:Thought patterns of mental patients

[rtb61]

Unfortunately here is where reality can often wildly distort statistic. The mentally disadvantaged children of intelligent well paid parents get mental health care. The mentally disadvantaged children of poor parents get tasered to death, get shot, get murdered, dies in other peoples wars or end up in prison. Basically poor parents with mental difficulties and who are unable to effectively compete in a capitalistic society will produce children who while in need of mental health services are extremely far more likely to end up in prison. It apparently all has something to do with sadistic prison guards employed by private industry being much cheaper than mental health professionals, also accommodations are meant to be cruel and inhumane (under insane right wingers) versus assisting in the mentally healthy rehabilitative process.