I find that really strange...when I'm more symptomatic, I'm less functional and have more cognitive difficulties. When tested officially, my IQ had dropped 11 points, and I'm not as smart as you to begin with, but I was doing fairly well mentally at that point too, though was on aripiprazole/Abilify. But I've done unofficial IQ tests when I'm really struggling cognitively and been just above the cut off for learning difficulties! And I would imagine it was untestable when I was really bad/slow and in a catatonic stupor. So it varies hugely for me, but I've never felt my cognition has ever improved above baseline. Feeling stupid and confused most of the time is probably my most frustrating problem - I never appreciated how 'easy' thinking used to be :/

*Willow*