[sndean]

> higher intelligence is associated with higher rates of almost all psych diagnoses.

Here's a recent thread about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886128

Yeah, it's possible that people with higher intelligence are more susceptible to some of the mental health issues that academia seems to induce. I know I struggled with some issues the last ~2 years of my PhD, but the issues were probably already there at the outset.