Hey all, I'm in Texas visiting family!

junkDNA, happy belated birthday!

medicalfox I'm still in high school but I can definitely relate to midterms/school becoming a cycle of stress and relapse... Hang in there

I heard on a podcast something about increased intelligence and patternality that I can really relate to. The idea is that increased intelligence usually implies better pattern recognition, but that sometimes your pattern recognition can go into overdrive and you see patterns in random sets of information, resulting in strange beliefs and even delusions. I can definitely relate to this because I get delusions of reference about movies and songs having messages in them... or I see patterns in my hallucinations and the real world that make me get strange thoughts... yet at the same time I have a high IQ and I'm expected to be more "rational"... It was really interesting.