is it true that smart/intelligent people are more likely to get depressed?

[Shabba Rank$]

"HAPPINESS IN INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IS THE RAREST THING I KNOW."

~ Ernest Hemingway

[Shabba Rank$]

[Bretty Poy32]

"HAPPINESS IN INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IS THE RAREST THING I KNOW."

~ Ernest Hemingway

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

[01samuelc]

I'm going to provide a George Carlin quote:

Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of the people are even stupider!

That's why intelligent people get depressed.

I realised just how ******ed my parents were at age 7 when we went to church.

[kadyo's]

I'm going to provide a George Carlin quote:

Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of the people are even stupider!

That's why intelligent people get depressed.

Distribution of intelligence is a bell curve. Population belong to the area under the curve to the right of z=2.5 are very smart people.

[kadyo's]

[MartinC]

If it's due to a chemical imbalance it has nothing to do with IQ.

[squealpiggy]

If it's due to a chemical imbalance it has nothing to do with IQ.

Well it's hard to feel existential angst if you don't know what "existential" means.

[the_ilest]

intellectual theists that think about heaven sure do seem happier than intellectual atheist. There is no bright side.

[NEETzsche]

If it's due to a chemical imbalance it has nothing to do with IQ.

this. you don't "feel depressed", you either are or aren't. it's a mental disease.