Not trying to be mean but if you are depressed, does it mean your dumber then ev!


Question: Not trying to be mean but if you are depressed, does it mean your dumber then everyone else?
Im depressed and I feel dumb... Are depressed people dumber than everyone else?

Answers:

Of coarse not! most of the greatest minds suffered from depression because they saw the world differently then others. Think about all the great artists majority suffered from depression



Actually intelligent people are very likely to suffer from depression. If you have little or no interests except watching TV and do not concern yourself with the world around you,you are unlikely to become depressed.If you think and question and examine your world you have to handle some of its problems and try and think of solutions.Being depressed depresses your thought processes and leads to tiredness and lack of motivation making you feel "dumb"

The very fact that you asked the question shows you have an enquiring mind and think about things



you feel dumb because your depression makes you think that way. When I am very severely depressed, I think I am stupid, and I was a geophysics PhD student at a prestigious university, working on a NASA project before bipolar disabled me. I honestly think I am stupid and everyone wants me dead, and think it more and more the more depressed i get. I do not think these things when the depression is less severe. My mental health worker keeps reminding me of these thought distortions, and it just ticks me off (I get along with her good, and I tell her these things).

so maybe it would help to write yourself a note to read when you are depressed that your perceptions are distorted by the depression. It might not work when the depression is very bad, though. I'm 46 and still have problems, after years of working on it.



Being depressed doesn't mean you're dumb at all- but it will make you feel dumb. It will make you feel all all kinds of unwelcome things. I have had depression for a long time, and I generally feel like I've leaked some brains when it gets really bad.

See a good doctor, get some meds. find a therapist to talk to, and hopefully, you'll start to feel better.



when u are depressed u feel negative and like u dont belong soo feeling ' dumb ' makes sense, probly feel negative about urself thats why u feel dumb, but u arent, everyone is fu'kign retarded anyway.. just saying :) goodluck



No you are not dumber than everyone else because you are depressed. You are dumber than everyone else for asking if being depressed makes you dumber than everyone.



Depressed people usually have low self-esteems... No, you're not less intelligent, you just see yourself that way.



No.
Many bipolar people are really smart and creative, probably more so than normals in their manic phase



you are not dumb. depression can be treated just like any other ailment



no.....



no not at all, go see a dr




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