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Oct 08, 2018, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSeaCat

I don't know if this has been discussed before but I would like to discuss it. Long story short a friend who has bipolar 1 and is a fourth year med student and I were discussing different medications I could try and we somehow got on the subject of how most people with some form of bipolar is usually very intelligent; which made me wonder what everyone else though of this. I also manage to find a few articles on the subject.

Intelligence Linked to Bipolar Disorder

Is bipolar disorder more common in highly intelligent people? A cohort study of a million men

Is Bipolar Disorder Correlated With High Intelligence? - bpHope : bpHope

So what does everything think about this subject. I kind of agree that I was always massively type A in school and would not accept anything less than a B when it came to my studies. I always had to make honor roll or some sort of Dean's list in college. Anyone else feel they are slightly more intelligent than others without Bipolar?

I sucked during school, and was eventually withdrawn by the teacher

I also don't see myself as " inteligent"

when I play trivia, for example,, I hardly know the answers.. most of the time I'm either guessing, or if worst comes to worst, I cheat and look it up on google (lol!)

I really don't think someone that has bipolar is more inteligent than someone who doesn't. I probably only say that though because I had a less than good education, and because I don't believe you just naturally "know" things