I just started posting here. It's a great looking board. So I just want to rant/rave for a second on the intelligence-hinder properties of my antipsychotics. I'm an actual genius and I know what that means to say that on the internet. People don't believe me, or they want to argue about the definition of genius, and they say every test you've ever taken didn't actually measure intelligence because they don't like the idea that they might not be the smartest person in the conversation.
Whatever.
Believe it, don't believe it. I went off my meds for a week before taking a few tests for entrance to Mensa. I didn't really want to join Mensa (although I did for two years to give it a shot), but I was concerned that my own assumption of my brain power was due to delusions of grandeur so I wanted a legit testing.
I had to go off the meds because on the meds, I feel like I'm running in mud when I try to think on real tough stuff. There's a book called Meditations by a Greek philosopher named Marcus Aurelius. It's heavy, heavy stuff. The line that has me thinking now is: Away from thy books, suffer not thy mind any more to be distracted, and carried to and fro; for it will not be; but as even now ready to die, think little of they flesh: blood, bones, and a skin; a pretty piece of knit and twisted work, consisting of nerves, veins, and arteries; think no more of it, than so.
I just started posting here. It's a great looking board...
I've read it on and off my meds. It's clear as day off my meds but on them, I need to break up the sentence into pieces, then form those pieces into a whole.
There's an upside too, though it sounds insulting. When I've got my brain running on all cylinders, I'm a real asshole. Your average conversation is a little dull to an average intelligence, but it's a hammer to the brain to someone with an oddity like mine. On the meds though, I can just sit, and chill, and have a conversation. I can be genuinely interested in what they have to say even knowing that it's going to banal.
I know the tradeoff is mostly IQ for sanity, but I kind of like not firing on all pistons, too. I take adderall when I want to write a book or something and I get most of the genius back without the mad bits. But even though I have the prescription for everyday, I only take it when I'm going to do something real intellectual. I even do lectures without it just so the stupid questions don't bother me. Everyone still considers me a genius, but I know I'm capable for so much more. I don't want to go off the pills. I just want people to know that if I did, as clever as I am, there were still pistons to fire.
Another person felt the same way; his name was John Nash.
Sage for off topic.
user, I have a high IQ as confirmed by a Mensa test and have a good awareness of many scientific disciplines.
I think the term genius is a little redundant when you realise that there are plenty of people with high IQs around the world.
I don’t think that we are anything special at all.
I've never taken IQ tests, except online ones. I don't think I'm a genius.
I was diagnosed with anxiety and major depressive disorder when I was younger (12-13 years old) and they gave me medication for it. I felt pretty similar to what you described after a month or two on the medication.
I stopped taking all medication (except for pain meds sometimes) when I was 14. I tried taking anti depression meds again in my 20s and I started feeling the same as I did when I was younger and I didn't get a second refill. This time for good I hope.
you can learn to function without meds in most situations (I don't know about your's though). I just accepted that I'm not the type to have big groups of friends and that the little I do have come and go in life. I don't like listening to banal conversations and I don't think that's a bad thing.
What're you on about?
>I think the term genius is a little redundant when you realise that there are plenty of people with high IQs around the world.
Hardly any of the Earth's population, when you consider the Earth as a whole, have a genius level IQ (or higher).
>I can be genuinely interested in what they have to say even knowing that it's going to banal.
The correction I must make to this statement: "I can be genuinely interested in what they have to say even knowing that it's going to be banal."
>Meditations by a Greek philosopher named Marcus Aurelius
A view of the spine.
Me?
I was just saying that I don't think I'm a genius, nor OP, despite having a high IQ.
Roman, not Greek, you pleb.
>a Greek philosopher named Marcus Aurelius.
t. brainlet