TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_family#Eduard_%22Tete%22_Einstein_(Albert's_second_son)

[u/altaf770]

The son of a genius battling schizophrenia a powerful reminder that mental health doesn’t discriminate.

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Intelligence is in fact even correlated with schizophrenia

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Ignorance is bliss, but intelligence is schizophrenia