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Barjuden t1_j5jkry7 wrote

Reply to comment by RoboChrist in Girl asks police to run DNA test on Christmas cookie for evidence of Santa Claus by koavf

That's actually not true. Higher intelligence is correlated with anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. That doesn't mean it's always the case, but the more intelligent one is the more likely they are to have those mental health problems.

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RoboChrist t1_j5jpn8u wrote

To have them diagnosed, or to have them?

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Barjuden t1_j5jqykc wrote

Probably both. That being said, life circumstances as a child still have way more to do with it than intelligence. There are a lot of relevant factors, and they all affect each other, so it's really better to assess cases individually.

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