Genius and Schizophrenia

    Genius is defined as the highest degree of giftedness. In everyday life, we use this word when we characterize a person who has achieved incredible success in a certain area. Be it painting or installing plumbing. In a global sense, genius is a kind of “extra” that manifests itself in virtually all areas of activity, because it is not for nothing that they say that a talented person is talented in everything. Genius cannot be acquired, it is given by nature, God, the cosmos ... As a rare feature of the human brain, due to physiological prerequisites rather than certain external interventions.

    However, for sure, many will agree that a truly super-gifted person will always impress others with strangenesses. The image of a kind of crazy professor or a mentally unstable brilliant artist became stereotyped, and these images are full of literary works, and films, and sometimes real life.

    Usually these "oddities" have a very specific name - schizophrenia. Schizophrenia - a truly unique mental and physiological disease that has a bunch of varieties, can remain latent for years and be inherited. All varieties of schizophrenia have a number of common symptoms, for example, a feeling of being chosen (not always in a positive sense), which most often goes hand in hand with delusions of greatness or (the reverse side of the same coin) - an inferiority complex. Schizophrenics are logical and consistent, most often they are extroverts or exhibit extraversion in certain circumstances.
    (I do not take into account the violent forms of this disease).

    The question is, why genius and schizophrenia, like twin sisters, so often complement each other?

    Is it likely that the human psyche, in conjunction with the nervous system, has some framework established by an unknown person, involuntarily (or consciously) going beyond which a person loses the ability to adequately perceive reality? Is it possible that with absolute dominance of the intellect, the mind passes because the human brain simply can not withstand such a load?
    What do you think?

    And, by the way, the level of genius in modern psychology takes a count of 150 CI points. Have there been sober-minded people in your life whose CI significantly exceeded this figure?

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