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Is depression really correlated with high IQ or is it cope to make up excuses for one's own shortcomings?

>> No.15722654

>>15722646
Let's put it this way: for every genuine case of depression-correlated-with-high-IQ, you have 10,000 cases of brainlets mistakenly thinking they're miserable because they're smart.

>> No.15722687

>>15722646
It's cope

>> No.15722715

>>15722646
Yes but only when it's brought on by an existential dread or on philosophical grounds and cosmological dispair. If its cause is related to mundane earthly affairs such as trauma, inceldom or squalor, then probably not.

>> No.15722723

>>15722646
Hello OP! Today I will teach you about the difference between being "intelligent" and being "cerebral".
You are "cerebral" silly! You're spending too much time in that little noggin of yours being remorseful over personal past life events.
"Intelligence" is the ability to learn, understand, and apply knowledge to solve problems. "Intelligence" is completely unrelated to this!
Now click that big red X for me in the top right of your internet browser

>> No.15722727 [DELETED] 

Sage

>> No.15722743

>>15722646
>Is depression really correlated with high IQ
probably, yeah, but that doesn't mean you being depressed --> you a high IQ.

>> No.15722747

Yes, that's the opposite of, "Ignorance is bliss."

>> No.15722809

>>15722727
Total sage

>> No.15723169

>>15722646
Its true. The more you know about the world, your future and those of your friends and family : depression is the only logical outcome.

>> No.15723193

>>15722646
high iq means you're more likely to be bored, which gives you depression because you're not doing anything fulfilling

>> No.15723230

>>15722715
>only when it's brought on by an existential dread or on philosophical grounds and cosmological dispair
That's a strictly midwit scenario.

>> No.15723233

>>15722646
It’s cops. Go to a psychiatry, you’ll see a good cross section of society. Normies are depressed all the time.

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15723234

>>15723233
>Normies are depressed all the time.
Ok, but they're not philosophically depressed.

>> No.15723435

>>15722646

Both extremes are available. Mental illness is correlated with both low-IQ and high-IQ individuals.

Bipolar disorder is seen more frequently with individuals with higher IQ.

In conclusion: Yes, you could be a retarded moron that thinks it's a depressed, tortured, outcasted Einstein-level genius.

Depression on some sources (literally some of the first results on Google search) is listed as a symptom of mental retardation.