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There IS a link between genius and madness - Claim Scientists (dailymail.co.uk)

There IS a link between creative genius and madness - with both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder frequent in highly creative and intelligent people.
The idea was investigated by a panel of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder.
Kay Redfield Jamison of John Hopkins school of Medicine, who suffers from bipolar disorder, said that intelligence tests on Swedish 16-year-olds had shown that highly intelligent children were most likely to go on to develop the disorder.

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in my case yes. while going psychotic i was deeply invested in philosophy, and i believe I was going through a intellectual awakening. it just got too serious, and i became so negative about everything in my life. the papers i wrote were astonishing to people-not in the sense of incredible intelligence of logic and constructing arguments, but that the way i wrote was so tied to my own experience that i was a living example of my writing. that is a kind of genius i believe.

philosophy i feel like lends itself to madness. i can't do it anymore. it drives me psychotic.