Whether the uber-successful – the CEOs, the founders, the innovators – are more or less prone to depression than the average person is a tricky and fascinating, not to mention controversial, question. We know that the average CEO is more likely to possess subtle psychopathic traits and be more prone to addiction (see here and here for rundowns of those issues, respectively). In fact, those tendencies may even help the individual rise to such heights in the first place. But what about other forms of mental health issue, like clinical depression? That particular disorder is much less likely a cause for their stardom, but rather a strange symptom of its presence.
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