[Blarg]

If you're not too bright, you're cut off from some types of pain that others have easier access to. Also, pain in general is accessible to everyone, so being smart doesn't exempt you. You could still have had a crummy childhood, developed neuroses, been economically limited, be lonely, be bi-polar, grow up in an environment that strongly encouraged drug and/or alcohol abuse, etc. That kind of thing leads to people self-medicating. Smart people are at least as likely to feel psychological pain. Apparently there have been studies showing that realistic people are more likely to be depressive. It seems fair to say that smarter people tend to be more realistic. Thus, depressive.

The other day, some doctor on CNN was talking about Lohan's rehab and his clinic, and he and another doctor were saying alcoholism isn't a disease at all, but is caused by people feeling lonely, taking steps backwards in life, undergoing repeated traumas, all kinds of psychologically very gripping things. They then tend to self-medicate.