Religion

It's how you express your spiritual experience.

But I think a lot of people on the extreme end of human performance do have mental illnesses, or sometimes it runs in their families. There has been research that confirms this.

I've dealt a lot with mental illness in my own family, so in my world it is no kind of insult. Our culture allows negative stereotypes and jokes about the mental ill that we don't allow for any other group, and certainly not the physically ill.

My opinion that Paul may have had a mental illness is no more of an insult to him or his achievements than my opinion that Isaac Newton may have had autism or Winston Churchill may have had bipolar disorder. I know people with both of those things and see the parallels in their lives. And I think their possible mental illnesses could have contributed to their achievements because it allowed them to see things in a different way.