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That may very well be the case, but there certainly have been some high profile exceptions. Howard Hughes anyone?


Nietzsche, Robert Schumann (composer) and Tesla are also notable.

If we factor in brilliant writers who shot themselves. Well, that list is quite long.


John Nash too. Not sure how he slipped my mind.


Dylan Thomas hypothesis?


Hughes was pretty normal until his later years. That may have been garden-variety senility.




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