Are highly intelligent people more prone to mental illness? OR --?

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or since average intelligent people are the majority and they feel the life and acts of the minority geniuses as mental illness and label them sick. (About 1 to 2 % of the total population are geniuses).

Note:
Homosexualism was a (or Considered a )mental illness before.
Now homosexuals are high in number, walking free, admitting that they are, everywhere.
So homosexualism is not in the list of illness now.

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Just like that, psychopathy is considered a mental illness. The matter is that they uphold logic almost 100% than the emotions. The emotional beings being the majority won't accept that , and have put the 'condition' in the list of mental illness. If they major in number, psychopathic character too, will be be removed from the list.

Somewhere I read that some of the US Presidents were(/are) having psychopathic characters. And 1 in 25 leaders and business bosses will be a psychopath, and they usually become boss of the bosses (Check the web).

I think, since they had that characters, they were able to success.So that might not be a mental illness but just normal in the nature or high giftedness of those human beings.


Please suggest your opinions.

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I wouldn't say mental illness, but if they are super smart they are more prone to getting in as much people that have hard lives. Because of their intelligence they are able to do things that the average person can't and believe that they are able to get away with it. A recent news article was able a very smart boy that was in his 20's they considered him a genious. Because of that he was able to hack into things, later getting caught. Because of getting caught he had killed himself..

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No, but highly intelligent people tend to think and process information differently, and are known for displaying eccentricities in their behavior. This doesn't make them mentally ill, though.

U.S. presidents are not highly intelligent people, despite what they would have you believe. Though yes, most of them (including our current president) are narcissists and may even be psychopathic.

Psychopaths are not nearly as logical as you think. Due to their inability to empathize and correctly relate with other members of their own species, their thought process is incredibly skewed, typically involving delusions of grandeur. Their decision-making process is not based on intelligence, but impulse. Most cannot plan ahead, hold down jobs, or maintain social relationships for very long. Most have extensive criminal records that indicate they are anything but highly intelligent.

A psychopath's success in the corporate or political world is due entirely to stepping on everybody around them, and having no qualms with lying, cheating, and stealing to get to the top. Do not mistake this for intellect, this is behavior most of us grow out of by the time we're 8. Their success is based on who they bribe, who gives them money, who fixes the media to pain them in a better or worse light, and what connections they have socially that they by some miracle have not burned yet. Narcissists and psychopaths do not rise high politically because of intellect, they rise up with a lot of @ss kissing and lying. Do -not- mistake these simpletons for intelligent. They are pseudo-intellectuals, just because they are good at public speaking and like to think they are super smart doesn't make it true.

Many of these people frequently remind us that they are incapable of functioning without a team of aides.