Posted by Monkeyoga on October 23, 2005, at 8:36:11
In reply to Re: Depression and IQ loss, posted by Noa on August 9, 2000, at 12:22:27
I apologize for resurrecting this post, but I can address this question.
When I was a kid -- probably in kindergarten or first grade -- I took some kind of IQ test and scored 140.
Since then, I've been through an episode of major depression lasting about seven years and experienced the brain cloud talked about above. In the past couple of years, I've taken an online IQ test a couple of times (the "tickle your brain" one, with Einstein's picture) and scored, both times, 140.
Granted, the Internet isn't exactly the best place to find a legitimate test of anything, but there you have it.
-Monkeyoga
> I have wondered about this myself.
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> During the worst of my hypothyroid/depression, my brain fog was thick and really made me cognitively impaired.
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> I wonder if, as I feel better, and the fog lifts, are there any permanent damages to my intelligence? I'll never know, becasue I have never been tested, so have no baseline to compare with (other than a pre-first grade screening done by the public school when I was 5, in which I remember being asked to draw a person. Being that it was the early sixties, to me, person non-specified was, of course, male, despite my being female!! Don't remember the other elements of the screening, but it wasn't an IQ test anyway)
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