I don’t know about the question of people with really high IQs. However, I do know of a suicide in my own family that almost fit this pattern. The individual, to whom I will give the pseudonym of “Joe” for this discussion, suffered a severe brain injury in an auto accident when he was about 12 and appeared to recover from it. Indeed, he got into the IT industry when he was inis 40’s and was doing so well he received a significant promotion and was viewed as a “stellar” performer. Nobody outside the family ever knew about his brain injury. Over Christmas of 2010-2011 he went into a manic high that I will not describe further, other than to say it showed he had something seriously wrong. Come summer of 2011 his roller coaster dropped him into a profoundly depressed low. At that point he meticulously planned and committed a suicide.
All of that, with the carefully concealed illness of a highly intelligent man and the functionally rational planning of the final act, is eerily similar to what appears to have happened in Denver.
Sorry to hear about the family member.Hope that some day they can find a concealed illness before it’s to late.
So many things in the world can and will kill us,life is a struggle and some times we forget that.
Sorry to hear about the family member.Hope that some day they can find a concealed illness before it’s to late.
So many things in the world can and will kill us,life is a struggle and some times we forget that.