To my frustration, the majority of the results I found were talking about were not scholarly.
If you do look, you will find odd little relationships and hints. Maybe there’s more autism among the close relatives of mathematicians and engineers. Maybe there are little hints that ADHD and schizophrenia are linked to creativity. Maybe there’s more bipolar disorder among performance artists. Maybe depressed people are better writers. Maybe. These little hints and bits and bobs of evidence indicating trade-offs are rarely as straightforward as finding elevated rates in a gifted population, the way you propose.
You won’t find any links between general intelligence and mental illness. It’s never “intelligence”, it’s almost always some weird, specific, difficult to study thing. I really doubt that high IQ puts you at elevated risk of anything. Sometimes people do come up with stuff, like “existential depression” (which I’m pretty sure is just normal depression with an intellectual rationalization), but it’s pretty sparse.
There’s supposed to be a body of literature (mostly pre-2000) with “gifted children” which I haven’t really looked into demonstrating frustrations arising from atypical development, but I haven’t seen any really good evidence for trade-offs or especially difficulties on that front either. It’s been mostly collections of case studies. (That said, I haven’t read that area much.)
If you do look, you will find odd little relationships and hints. Maybe there’s more autism among the close relatives of mathematicians and engineers. Maybe there are little hints that ADHD and schizophrenia are linked to creativity. Maybe there’s more bipolar disorder among performance artists. Maybe depressed people are better writers. Maybe. These little hints and bits and bobs of evidence indicating trade-offs are rarely as straightforward as finding elevated rates in a gifted population, the way you propose.
You won’t find any links between general intelligence and mental illness. It’s never “intelligence”, it’s almost always some weird, specific, difficult to study thing. I really doubt that high IQ puts you at elevated risk of anything. Sometimes people do come up with stuff, like “existential depression” (which I’m pretty sure is just normal depression with an intellectual rationalization), but it’s pretty sparse.
There’s supposed to be a body of literature (mostly pre-2000) with “gifted children” which I haven’t really looked into demonstrating frustrations arising from atypical development, but I haven’t seen any really good evidence for trade-offs or especially difficulties on that front either. It’s been mostly collections of case studies. (That said, I haven’t read that area much.)