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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
You might actually be getting less smart either due to the illness or the meds...for me the meds were suppressing about 15 IQ points active psychosis was worse though more like 40 points...it's in no way permanent once you are stable you will get it back...it's not really damage though just some sort of suppression...are you doing anything to counteract it like brain games or anything...that's supposed to help...
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I was tested with a high IQ but I was told there were abnormalities. The proctor said it was most likely because of the meds and that I wasn't eating at the time, but I keep thinking it's just proof I'm brain damaged. My dad and a first cousin have IQs in the 160s so I feel like I should have been like them...
The only thing I'm doing right now intellectually is trying to graduate. I haven't been practicing French and German so my foreign language skills are rusty. Once I graduate I'm going to take a year off/go to community college before I go to university. I need to get some academic credits because I lost my junior and most of my senior years to being in the hospital. My dad went to community college because he had to drop out of high school due to drug problems, and he still ended up going to an Ivy League school, so there's hope.
On a completely unrelated note, I kind of want to get a tattoo. I want a small puzzle piece on my wrist. I know the puzzle piece is supposed to be for autism, but to me it represents putting my life back together. (I love 3D puzzles, too, so it's not completely serious.)