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High IQ linked to higher risk of psychological disorders Depression, Anxiety, ADHD & Autism
| Tsien defines intelligence as, “the ability to self-discover knowledge and patterns from a world full of uncertainties and infinite possibilities,” whose mission it is to “solve various problems in their natural and social environments in order to survive and thrive”.
| The highly intelligent individual has a remarkable capacity for seeing and internalizing these vast uncertainties, possibilities, and problems. This gift can either be a catalyst for empowerment and self-actualization or it can be a predictor of dysregulation and debilitation.
| The study involved 3715 members of the American Mensa organization, 2213 that identified as male (60%), 1472 that identified as female (40%) (30 declined to provide a gender status). As a control, the study used national diagnosis data of the same conditions.
The following institutions are credited as being involved in this study: Department of Psychology, Pitzer College & Department of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Seattle Pacific University.
| The Results (Percentage of confirmed diagnosis)
*Mood Disorders - National average 9.5% High Intelligence 26.8%
*Anxiety Disorders - National average 10.9% High Intelligence 20%
*ADHA - National average 4.1% High Intelligence 7.4%
*ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder ) - National average 1% High Intelligence 1.2%
*Depressive disorders - National average 6.7% High Intelligence 25.8%
*all with 95% CI
| Anxiety disorders in this study included generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
The study also found that high intelligence could also potentially be linked to almost double the risk associated with autoimmune disease.
http://www.insightnewsmag.co/2018/January/High-IQ-linked-to-higher-risk-of-psychological-disorders-Depression-Anxiety-ADHD-Autism-ASD
http://archive.is/cabCV
| Nothing new, it was always common knowledge that smart-ass people are prone to mind disorders
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| If you had a choice, what would you be, a higher iq than average or lower iq than average?
| Wow I have the all of these save for autism and I don't even have a high IQ to show for it. Fuck me.
| Well guees it's a life of solitude foe me... :/
| >>119866 You don't need high IQ to have it, it just increases the risk of it, and if you don't already, you should get some help for that shit. Psychological problems are fucking hard to get rid of, but a therapist and some people who can support you through it is the only way to do it.
| >>119917
Was just making light of my status as a mentally fucked NEET living on their own who desperately wants help but also doesn't, if that makes any sense, probably not.
| A late friend of mine who committed suicide a few years back graduated valedictorian of his highschool. He was a truly intelligent person; used to tell me that learning in itself was addicting to him.
But he also had crippling (and I do mean, non-meme, actually crippling) social anxiety, to the point where he latched onto me as his "only friend" and kept inviting me to hang out or spending hundreds on video games just so we could play together.
| He would routinely, and constantly, have daily manic depressive episodes and his parents refused to believe that their son had issues, even after he failed out of college twice from simply quitting going to class. He refused to be seen by a therapist and on the very last occasion I ever spoke to him, I called police and social services and tried to get people to break down his door because one of his manic episodes became especially bad.
| After he was escorted to the school clinic, he contacted me again on facebook and accused me of "breaking his trust" and that i owed him $100 for an office copay, where he claimed that the psych didn't find anything wrong with him and shooed him away. After that happened and the apparent disregard he had for my care for him, I tried to cut things off, because he was driving me crazy too.
| He would go on about creating a God AI and implanting his mind into it since he believed his great intellect would be necessary to control it, and would make passive aggressive comments about needing to "deal with" me in the future so that I didn't stop his creation of a real world Skynet. In later months and a couple years he called me out of the blue, accusing me of stalking him and sending him insults and demeaning messages, despite me breaking contact with him.
| When I finally found out that he died through a different friend on facebook, I asked them if it was through suicide, and it was. When I visited his wake I felt weird because while I had to deal with a lot of emotional and mental damage from him that, in retrospect, mirrored an abusive relationship, at the end he was my friend at one point and it really felt like, despite being considered the most brilliant person in our class, he could never help himself,
| Nor apparently could anyone else.
| its so weird being several years later and seeing all these memes about autists and aspergers and lolcows and sociopaths and just generally dickish people. I don't even know where to begin with how my friend failed in life. It feels like everything failed- he failed himself, and the safety nets that should have caught him failed as well.
| For awhile, despite how much I hated him for literally years of mental and emotional trauma over having to be his sole confidant
| I even blamed myself for not doing more. But what could I do? I had my own grades and own drama to deal with. I can't shoulder yours too man.
| Anyway sorry I went on a tangent there, but yeah, it doesn't surprise me that there's a correlation between high IQ and mental problems.
| It's alright. Autistic people are annoying in general.
| I wonder if this means genes that support high IQ values are the same genes that leave you more vulnerable to mental illnesses.
Or maybe it's because high IQ people feel compelled to engage in high stress lifestyles and that's boosting their mental disorder rates?
| Le brainlets can't understand me boohoo.
| On other news people with low IQ also have high chances, though not as high, of getting all those problems thanks to the way society became in the present
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| >>123967 not sure but was something about how stressful the world has become and how it affects everyone negatively
| Dumb peepz just 2 stoopid 4 feels
| Lower IQ people tend to consist of more aggresive people, so anti-social disorders or fanaticism are definitely more common.
| The whole concept of IQ is para-scientific voodo shit.
I also think it's totally sane to be depressed in this fucked up world. People that only smile stupid and say „everything is fine“ are the ones with a psychological disorder.
| JUST IN: High IQ also linked to high intelligence
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| A new peer-reviewed paper (published in the January 2018 issue of ScienceDirect) has shown that possessing a high intellect could be directly linked to several psychological disorders including Depression, Anxiety, ADHD and Autism. The study also suggests that an above average IQ could also have a large impact on physical health.