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I have always wondered about the correlation between IQ and depression. Most everyone I know with depression is either very bright and/or very creative.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

A friend of mine was the CEO of a pharmaceutical company division in Germany. He was brilliant, but got sick in his 40's and had alot of problems. He had to leave it all behind. He had to adjust to a new reality. He was a brilliant psychiatrist by training, an MD. Luckily, he was very wealthy... it helps to not have to worry about money when ill.

Anyway, he befriended me and taught me immensely important things about this subject.

Most people are conditioned to think of mental illness, medication, the research, psychiatrists, in ways that are patently false. Politics and greed play a more important role than anything else. Learning to think outside of the illness and the misperceptions (and outright lies) is the key to dealing with it.

If anyone would like to discuss this subject in a practical, 1st hand, straight forward manner, please contact me via FReepmail.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

My brother had an IQ in the genius range. I have learned in recent years that he was one of the engineers involved in the early development of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile.