Another indication that exceptionally bright people may be at risk of bipolar disorder comes from findings that boys with very high or very low school grades were both more likely than those with average performance to be hospitalised with bipolar disorder as adult
We hypothesised that, if men with exceptional intelligence do have an increased risk of bipolar disorder, it will be bipolar disorder in its pure form with no psychiatric comorbidity.
Among those who had bipolar disorder in a pure form, we found that men with the highest intelligence, particularly as regards verbal and technical ability, were at increased risk compared to those of average ability
Evidence from a family-based study showed that bipolar disorder as a whole is associated with poorer memory and processing speed and that these cognitive deficits are linked with genetic liability to the illness, but there was no examination of pure bipolar disorder.16
Damn why didn’t I get the genius mental illness 