Our tendency to slip into predetermined patterns isn't reserved solely for those facing the big issues, from mental illness to addiction, bereavement to ill health.
Or is it the other way around: that the kind of people who make it to the top of this game are the kind of intense, driven individuals whose very self-obsession makes them more vulnerable to mental illness?
I am miserable because one of the two people I love most is not recovering from his illness.
Durst's lawyers expressed concern mostly about ease of access to their client, although they also told the court they did not believe their client suffered from "an acute mental illness", according to the court filings.
In the eight months since the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown brought increased focus on police violence, more and more officer-involved shootings that also involve mental illness have come to light.
For example, Richard Layard's work on happiness has focused a great deal of attention on mental illness.
She knew I would write about her fatal illness".
The first was written during Lucinda's final illness and describes a holiday the couple took on Crete after discovering that she had only a year and a half to live.
Having attended both comprehensive and private secondary schools, and been educated at home because of illness, she may be more open to new thinking than some of her predecessors.
"It is a very, very serious mental illness that needs to be recognised for what it is.
Turner confirms this, adding: "Another thing that's a part of the schizophrenic illness syndrome is the idea that your body has been interfered with," he tells me.
