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high intelligence is a strong predictor of mental illness, of which this is an unfortunate example.
Looked this up just now, it seems it's not true
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/high-intelligence-is-not-associated-with-a-greater-propensity-for-mental-health-disorders/E101AE4EDBC8FBAEE5170F6C0679021C
hmm, interesting! it's been considered "common wisdom" since I was in university, always intriguing to have these unquestioned misconceptions corrected.
To be honest I didn't read the whole article and methods (just the summary) but it may be possible that increased intelligence just leads to increased masking, which changes the rate of diagnosis and skews the results. However, the results in the paper are quite significant so even if that's true those effects may just return them to "evens".
I won’t ever have that problem then.