Geniuses have abnormal minds

Although not yet confirmed, there is a lot of evidence that people with IQ are not usually "normal". Vincent van Gogh, Beethoven, Isaac Newton, . are world geniuses but few know that they have mental illnesses.

Although it is not possible to conduct psychological and neurological tests on the ' great madmen ' of history, historians have studied their personal documents, including letters and talents. materials, works and research works as well as other sources of information. As a result, it turns out that the greatest geniuses in the world are those who are 'not normal' minds .

Although there is no genuine scientific evidence of this connection, researchers at the University of Toronto have found that people who do highly creative work such as poets, writers, and artists, . have little or even no self-restraint - this is a subconscious ability that allows us to ignore unimportant or unrelated stimuli. Discovery magazine quoted psychology professor Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto as saying: 'A normal person will have a reflex to evaluate and classify an entity from the environment, then forget it, though very well. That body is more complex and interesting than their original evaluation. On the contrary, high-creative groups always care about everything in their surroundings and look for new things in them. '

John Nash (born 1928)

John Nash (left) and actor Russell Crowe play him in A Beautiful Mind).

Hollywood movie ' A Beautiful Mind ' (A beautiful soul) won 4 Oscars with a script that adapted the life of mathematical genius - John Nash and his fight against schizophrenia .

His full name is John Forbes Nash Jr. He was an American mathematician, majoring in game theory, differential geometry, differential equations. His theories provided insight into the forces that govern opportunities and events within complex systems in everyday life. His theory has been used in market economy, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, political theory and the military.

John Nash suffered from illusory hallucinations and delusions for about 30 years of his life. He often had the illusion of hearing the voices of many people in his ears but could not see anyone. He also suffers from megalomania, claiming that he is being hunted by important figures in the world. In the late 1980s, after many hospitalizations and struggles with these disorders, he was finally able to return to normal. In 1994, John Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science for his previous game theory.

Talking about his recovery, John Nash thought that it was not really a joy. He considers mindfulness in thought to set a limit on one's perception of the relationship between itself and the world, the universe.

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

Vincent van Gogh is a Dutch artist from the post-impression school. Many of his paintings are among the most famous, most loved and most expensive works in the world. In the last 10 years of his life, the artist composed more than 2,000 works, including about 900 complete paintings and 1,100 drawings or sketches. Most of Van Gogh's most famous works were composed in the last two years of his life, the time when he fell into a mental crisis to cut himself in his left ear because of his friendship with the artist Paul Gauguin. After that, Van Gogh constantly suffered from nervous breakdowns and eventually ended his life.

Van Gogh often suffers from neurological problems, especially in his later years. There has been a lot of debate in the search for the true cause of the artist's neuropathy and its impact on his works. There have been around 30 different diagnoses for Van Gogh's disease symptoms, including schizophrenia, dysfunction, syphilis, seizures and acute porphyria. Any of these diseases can be the culprit that leads to the nervous breakdown of the artist. His condition was also exacerbated by lack of food, labor, insomnia and alcoholism, especially absinthe.

It is also suggested that the weak body of the artist is due to lead poisoning . The colors used by Van Gogh are all lead-based, and one of the symptoms of lead poisoning is that the retina tension leads to frequent sightings of the halo, a characteristic commonly found in end-of-life works. of the painter.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Edgar Allan Poe is a great American writer, playwright, critic, and poet. Poe is the ancestor of the detective and criminal genre. He wrote poetry, wrote prose, wrote literary criticism and worked as a book editor, but giving him the most reputation were short stories of horror and detective genres.

Throughout his life as an infant until his death, Poe had to live a life full of suffering and unhappiness.

During the forty short years of his life, Poe has repeatedly faced tragic deaths that occurred to relatives. Father, mother, brother, foster mother, then his dear wife died by tuberculosis in turn. This may have left deep emotional and emotional wounds on him, explaining why he was often obsessed with and talked a lot about death.

The last years of life (from 1847 - 1849), Poe lived in a state of hardship, half-insane . His death also carries many mysteries like his own works. According to medical records, Edgar Poe was admitted to the hospital in a state of unconsciousness. Later, he recovered, he was sweating profusely, suffered from hallucinations and often quarreled with an imaginary person. Next is the period of his memory loss, forbidden to export and then stop breathing.

Recently, public opinion leans on the hypothesis given by American writer Mathew Pearla. This scholar spent three years studying Edgar Poe's death and then concluded that Poe died of brain tumors.

One of the bases that Mathew Pearl relied on was the journalist reports of what they observed during the excavation of Edgar Poe's corpse in 1875. According to these people, they were extremely shocked. see the dwindling brain of the deceased is not decomposed but still in the skull. Learning through an anatomy specialist, Mathew is known, such a case is extremely limited. It can only happen in a few cases where the brain is calcified by tumors , causing the owner to die but the brain is still lumpy, not decomposing.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Beethoven is a German classical composer (but he lives mainly in Vienna, Austria). He is widely recognized as the greatest composer and has influenced many composers, musicians and audiences later.

Beethoven's life has a lot of difficulties. His father was an alcoholic and rude, his mother was often ill. Of Beethoven's six siblings, only two survived. At about 5 years old, he suffered from otitis media, perhaps this was the cause of his later deafness .

In his life, Ludwig van Beethoven suffered from physical torment. The cause of his illness until today is still the subject of research by scientists.

In early December 2005, Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, United States, gave evidence that, as early as the age of young Ludwig van Beethoven, lead poisoning was severe. This publication is based on an analysis of a sample of the skull of a radiograph. Thus, it can be said from the time when 20-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven suffered from the serious effects of lead poisoning.

Historically, Ludwig van Beethoven's character began to change from around 20 years old. At the same time, he often complained about his unspecified abdominal pain. However, it is unclear whether his deafness is caused by lead poisoning.

At about 30 years old, Ludwig van Beethoven began to show the first symptoms of hearing fibrosis and this symptom became worse, there was no way to save. By 1819 he was completely deaf. Since then, he no longer performs and cannot conduct the orchestra. The communication at this time was also extremely difficult for him.

When Beethoven was told by his doctor that his death was close, Beethoven was not sad, he felt light, declared to his friends: " Please clap your hands! The tragedy has come down!".

Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Isaac Newton was a British physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher and great mathematician. Despite his great contributions to science, he was still " known " for being extremely difficult, extremely erratic or even manifested by schizophrenia.

Born in a peasant family, lucky for mankind, Newton did not do good farming, so he was taken to Cambridge University to become a lawyer. An outbreak of illness caused Cambridge school to close, so he returned home. For two consecutive years living at home, separate from the outside world, Newton devoted his time to reflection and scientific research.

The result was sublime: less than 25 years old, Newton made three inventions that made him naturally on par with the scientific geniuses of all time.

Surprisingly, Newton did not publish any of his three extremely important inventions of differential mathematics, the color of light and the law of gravitation. With a very reserved and discreet nature, he does not like fame, dislike debate and has a desire to shelve his inventions. What he announced later was urged by his friends, but he regretted it because he softly listened to them. He thought that publication would make people critique, then from criticism to debate, what Newton was so sensitive about was very disturbing.

Born at the time of Newton's sensitivity to objections to his theories, even to the point of not publishing the works until after his most critical counterpart was Hooke.

He proved increasingly eccentric at the end of his life when performing chemical reactions and at the same time 'prophecy' dates for Bible events. After Newton's death, a large amount of mercury was found in his body, possibly infected during the experiment. The harmful effects of this chemical on the body can partly explain the eccentricity of this great genius.

Michelangelo

Being on par with Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo is a famous Renaissance painter and architect with a magnificent wall painting on the Sistine Chapel dome. In order to be able to make the work with such magnificence, the artist must have a high concentration. According to the 2004 " Journal of Medical Biography, " that possibility comes from mental disorder.

As a teenager, Michelangelo had difficulty building relationships, he had only a few friends. In addition, the male members of his family have similar symptoms.

These together with the scholarship to genius in the fields of mathematics and art are the basis for researchers today to believe that he had autism.

Charles Darwin

The problem of the evolutionary theory of evolution is still controversial, but the symptoms of Darwin's famous journey on the Beagle show that he is likely to have a fear of wide-ranging . Physical symptoms such as trembling, hallucinations, nausea, and hysteria, are mainly caused by the fear of wide-ranging - Agoraphobia .

Besides, some of his notes show that he has fear of strangers, can't even talk to his relatives. These symptoms suggest that he is likely to have " obsessive-compulsive disorder" - OCD, or a neurological disease, including a wide range of fear.

Kurt Gödel

Gödel is an excellent logician and mathematician, also a good friend of Albert Einstein . Gödel doesn't seem to be suffering from mental illness, at least because of his appearance, but he has the illusion of being poisoned by others.

Illusion worsened as she got older, so much so that he could only eat food cooked by his wife and let her taste it first. When his wife was hospitalized, Gödel simply did not eat anything and starved to death.