smart people, why are you depressed/have mental illnesses?

Answer 1

Smart people understand too much too soon. We lose innocence at, like, age 8.

Answer 2

Smarter people have less mental illness, on average. A couple reasons for that I can think of right off - 1) you're going to cope better with the mental illness if you're smart, so you will not make things worse (therefore the symptoms will be milder). and 2) a lot of mental illnesses go with OTHER brain disorders, too, some of which may have something to do with IQ.

That is all on average tho. Obviously intelligent people have mental illnesses just like anyone else. Mental illnesses are genetic and are also due to environmental factors such as child abuse or head injuries or other extreme negative experiences.

Answer 3

Depression/mental illness hits people of all ages, races, intellectual levels,

we are all HUMAN with emotions.

Even the smartest, most intelligent successful person can feel lonely, misunderstood and empty which leads to mental illness.

I am a postgraduate student currently studying part time Masters course...and I feel like the most loneliest person on the planet right now....and I dont know WHy..

Answer 4

why are you aiming this at just " smart people". We are all human you know and its not uncommon to feel emotions from time to time, you know??

Depressed is a emotion and a mental illness can be cured.

So, why are you asking this?? got a point??

Answer 5

Because my mom left me at 8 years old to live with my alcoholic,pedofile of a father and forgot to tell me he had epilepsy so the first night I was awakened by a gran mal seizure I thought Satan himself was coming from below and from that day on I wake up at 3:30 am. (It's been 35 years.) Eventually I educated myself on epilepsy and found out that he was having seizures because he was selling his meds for liquour, pot, and beer. Oh, and he didn't have any money for food so I had to beg from neighbors and steal it from the corner store and then he tried having sex with me and failed so by the time I was almost 13 he snuck in the bathroom when I was in the shower and when I pulled back the curtain he snapped a polaroid of me bare naked, showed it to all the unsavory neighbors and displayed it in his work area, telling everyone that I posed willingly for the photo and that I was giving him sex and enjoying it. I repeatedly told my six older brothers and sisters (one of whom was a police officer) but they didn't believe me until he got fired from his job and my sister found the photograph. Do you want to hear more about how my mom would love me until she got what she wanted and then "disown me because I was a slut and a whore" (14 year old virgin nerd was I.) Then she asked me at 15 to have a baby for her to adopt and when I said no she threw me out on the street. I'm going to write a whole story one day, it'll be longer and more gruesome than a Stephen King book. But I hope I started to answer your question.

Answer 6

depression? so many reasons.. financial.. someone, loved died..you lost your job...mental illness could be anything from mania to psychosis.. so whats wrong with you?

Answer 7

cause i know what's going on....idk and i don't think this only relates to smart people....i mean cmon, its not like i'm smart, i might know stuff but apparently i'm not smart enough to use it.

Answer 8

You might as well ask, smart people, why do you get cancer? It is not a choice.

Answer 9

It is a brain function thing that medical doctors and science cannot define.

Answer 10

get a life.who died and made you god?what is the reaction(s) your looking for,w/ posting all this rudeness and ignorance???your kinda being insultive to us 'mental people'.think i'm wasting my time here.