10個有精神分裂症的統治者

人類中許多人有精神病，其中嚴重的是精神分裂症。

有的網上列出了歐洲歷史上著名的10個有精神病的皇室成員，多數是統治者。我估計這是精神病科醫生根據歷史上的描述推斷出來的。當然，有的是當時醫生的診斷結果。

為什麼歐洲統治者中有那麼多的精神分裂症患者？今天的理論好像能解釋了。首先，精神分裂症和基因有密切關係。並且還發現，精神分裂症患者家族中的基因和具有創造性的基因有相關性。可以這樣描述：極有創造性人物的家族中，經常有精神分裂症患者伴隨。例子可以舉出很多的。特別是藝術家，本人是精神分裂症患者，或者家族中有精神分裂症患者的，比例之高，超出了許多人的想象。

俺要是儘量多的列出那些著名人物（這是個耗時耗力的工作），他們和家族中精神分裂症患者相伴，多到可能會嚇掉你的下巴頦！

目前有研究認為：有創造性的人和精神分裂症患者的大腦在下列一點上相同：他們丘腦中，多巴寧D2接受器的濃度明顯比常人低。而多巴寧D2系統起的作用是，過濾我們感官來的送往大腦的信息，由於過濾功能變弱，他們經常會把通常不相干的信息聯繫起來，作出特異性判斷。這個就是藝術的價值所在。如果這樣特異性太古怪，那麼就是精神病的胡思亂想了。

就這樣，創造性和精神分裂症密切聯繫起來了。

許多有創造性人物家族中，都具有精神分裂症患者。我將在另一短文中列出一系列你可能大吃一驚的名字。

歐洲的皇室成員中，互相通婚，如果和皇室外的人通婚被視為反常的。各個不同民族的統治者當初都是很有創造性的人物。他們家族中就可能帶有精神分裂症的基因。長時間的互相通婚，把這個基因篩選出來了。所以，皇室中，精神分裂症患者就增多了。

在基因層次上，關於精神分裂症的文獻，多而凌亂，摘其要而敘述，超出了我目前知識理解的範圍，故不涉及。

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When someone is talked about as being crazy, they usually aren’t the ones calling the shots. However, there have been a few notable cases of these mad men or women, all of royal blood, ruling countries, much to the chagrin of their subjects or much to the delight of their parents who act as regents. Luckily it hasn’t happened all that recently – can you imagine the posh padding required to hold an insane royal? Only the finest 1,000 count Egyptian cotton for the cell walls and a straight jacket made of the best royal purple silk and tied with gold roping. And hopefully these 10 wackos will stay in the recesses of history and not pop up again – you know the whole history repeating itself?

10. George III of the United Kingdom

King George III ruled Great Britain and Ireland for some 59 years of his life. While he was somewhat gifted in the military campaign aspect defeating France in extended engagements once during Napoleon’s reign and once during the Seven Year War, his biggest loss, besides his marbles, was that of the American Colonies. Born in 1738, he didn’t start losing his mental health until later in life, supposedly from arsenic poisoning. If someone was trying to kill him, they should have tried harder.

9. Peter III of Russia

Less well known than his wife who took his throne, Peter III was Emperor of Russia for about six months in the mid 1700s. But he held questionable, at least to the court nobles, allegiances while his wife Catherine II courted those same nobles and took his throne in a bloodless coup. It was said that he was insane but that he was also relieved to no longer have the throne – perhaps he really was crazy. Whether he was crazy can be disputed; however, along with a couple other people who could potentially question Catherine’s ascension to the throne, Peter was found a few months later mysteriously dead.

8. Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria

This German daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria never married and was quite an accomplished literary figure in her homeland. While not clinically insane, she did display OCD tendencies and thought she swallowed a glass piano. It was probably the crinoline under the period dress of the mid 1800s that caused her hips to look big, not the piano.

7. Ludwig II of Bavaria

nsanity runs in the family, just ask Princess Alexandra’s nephew, Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria. While he was declared clinically insane by his cabinet members in 1886, it was doubted as to whether he was actually bonkers. He did have troubles with shyness, childish behavior and flights of fancy including building many castles such as Neuschwanstein Castle. And though his sanity was questioned, his common sense was definitely lacking when he decided it not best to flee when his cabinet members tried to depose him not once but twice.

6. Otto of Bavaria

Ludwig II’s brother, Otto, became King of Bavaria at the age of 38 after his older brother was deposed and died a day later. However, Otto was confined to Fürstenried Palace due to his actual mental illness; meanwhile a regent ruled in his stead. Supposedly the Wittelsbach family were all rather eccentric, some more so than others as in the case of Otto, Ludwig and Alexandra.

5. Juana of Castile

Joan the Mad was crazy about her husband, Phillipe the Handsome. She was known as being obsessed with her husband even after his death. Perhaps this was why she never actually ruled Castile – because she was crazy and a necrophiliac. While she was busy mourning her husband, continually caressing his rotting corpse, which she brought with her on a tour of Spain in the 1500s, her father and son wanted to rule for her. She was rendered essentially powerless and locked away for the rest of her life. Love will drive a person mad!

4. Charles VI of France

Known as Charles the Mad, many historians think King Charles VI of France suffered from schizophrenia. Shortly after an attempted murder of a friend in 1392, Charles took an army after the supposed perpetrator only to turn on his knights killing one and injuring others before being dragged off his horse and falling into a coma. Because he acted bonkers, he was later removed from power but not dethroned since he lived for some 30 years after his first fit of the crazies.

3. Carlos II of Spain

nbreeding can only make genetic and mental defects stronger as in the case of Juana the Mad’s descendant King Carlos II of Spain. He was severely disfigured from birth with a huge elongated head, a misshapen body and a jaw that could not close so he could eat. Meanwhile, he was relegated to being an idiot from birth since he was hardly taught anything and only went from an infantile brain to idiocy in his older years. Carlos’ relatives all died leaving him the throne and an over-bearing mother to rule in his stead. However, he thought of himself as bewitched because of his suffering, while in today’s world most of what he suffered would have been recognized as being cause by inbreeding.

2. Afonso VI of Portugal

“The Glutton” took ill at the age of three and was left partially paralyzed on his left side as well as mentally unstable for the rest of his life. Afonso was delighted when he saw his older two siblings die as teenagers declaring “Hurray! Now I will be King of Portugal!” Unfortunately the future King was a little loose in the head loving savagery and loving food to the point of being called a glutton. In his final days like many of the other monarchs on this list, he was confined – it was said he wore a groove in the floor from pacing since he couldn’t do anything else.

1. Charles IX of France

Unlike Afonso, King Charles IX of France actually took out his savagery on others in his court, including once on his sisters as well as on other humans and animals. Due to a disfiguration, he was dubbed the Snotty King and was given to fits of rage and sadism though he was a Mama’s Boy. In 1561 at the age of 10, Charles took the throne after all the other eligible heirs died – through no fault of his. Like Carlos, it was his overbearing mother that ruled long after her regency ended when he came of age. Never cutting the strings might drive any man crazy!

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