Homeless despite Yale degree; mental illness? drug addiction? choice?

I’ve known two Yalies very well who “fell apart.” One killed himself in his early 40s, the other drank himself to death well before he smashed into a concrete wall in his mid-40s. Neither really became homeless, though a few more years and they could have I guess.

I know another Yalie from the same class as the first one who is now worth more than $10 billion (yes, billion) based on some outsized early career risks he took that paid off “bigly.” Sadly, I know him quite a bit less well…

Life is strange that’s for sure.