Yes, it is intelligent to assert that my intelligence is unrelated to my bipolar disorder because I was speaking for myself. I was intelligent long before I displayed any symptomology, remained intelligent through treatment, and am still intelligent now that I am at this point not under any treatment at all. My intelligence level was not related to or affected by my diagnosis in any way. Intelligence can be affected in some people by medications and severity of symptoms; it just hasn't been the case for me.

I never found my diagnosis made be feel any less intelligent. I might have felt less confident, more depressed, sedated by meds, fatigued, etc., but my intelligence seemed to maintain for me fortunately. That isn't the case for everyone. My husband was cognitively affected by medications. He had a severe loss of short-term memory, word recall, etc. Fortunately, I recognized what was happening and the pdoc took him off the med that was the culprit and he has pretty much recovered the cognitive losses he incurred - but not quite entirely.