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Originally Posted by still_crazy
hi. i...don't want to call your psychiatrist a 'liar,' but...if the IQ dropped to 86, I think there's something besides Schizophrenia going on there. Maybe...
if they were refusing meds, ended up hospitalized and drugged to the gills, perhaps some shock treatments, then they were released and went off the meds again (vicious cycle)...
I could see that pattern resulting in loss of IQ, especially with the doses of the old drugs that were once popular in hospital settings (1500mgs/Thorazine was not unheard of...).
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That's what I was thinking, drugs (recreational or prescription), maybe a TBI (or several) along the way? Who knows what your pdoc could be leaving out without technically lying.
Although I have heard of repeated psychosis/mania damaging the brain too, but that IQ drop seems a little excessive to go from gifted to below average in 20 years just from psychosis. I'm not saying it can't happen (I really don't know), but I agree, there was probably something left out or exaggerated.