Posted by SLS on October 13, 2010, at 6:21:58
In reply to Was I stupid? Am I still?, posted by Christ_empowered on October 12, 2010, at 23:04:14
I thought you were thoroughly apprised of the fact that depressive disorders produce cognitive and memory impairments. They do, but the degree to which these things occur is very variable interindividually. With major depressive disorder, these impairments seem to be state specific. They dissipate as the depression remits. For bipolar disorder, there seems to be a degree of trait specific impairments that persist despite remission.
- Scott
> So, it dawned on me: mental illness (or...something) made me very stupid, for a very long time. I wasted $$$ b/c I couldn't focus on school work. It wasn't ADD--I was just plain dumb. I used to say the most mind-numbingly stupid things. I used to be a moron.
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> But no longer.
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> Weirdly enough, I didn't start out stupid, either; that happened years into being crazy. And getting over it has been a gradual process, too.
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> What gives?
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The measure of achievement lies not in how high the mountain,
but in how hard the climb.The measure of success lies only in how high one feels he must
climb to get there.
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