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| *Women health>>>Bipolar Disorder |
Please may I know how bipolar disorder may affect one's intelligence or memory? |
Please may I know how bipolar disorder may affect one's intelligence or memory? Bipolar disorder is unlikely affect ones intelligence, in fact it shouldnt affect it at all, memory as well. the only thing that it is likely to affect is behaviour and thoughts. AKA manic depression its liable to lad to mood swings of 'euphoric highs and crippling lows' but neither intelligence or memory It does because when you are in the depressive state you are concentrating on worrying about problems that don't exist so your mind cannot function properly. As far as I can tell it only affects short term memory Stephen Fry is bi polar and is one of the cleverest people I have ever met! He has no problems storing large amounts of information and regularly spends hours on the internet researching. He even remembered my name the 2nd time we met and I'd only spoken to him briefly the 1st time! It doesn't affect intelligence, as some of the most intelligent and creative people on this planet are or was bi-polar. As for memory, I believe it doesn't affect that either, but if thats happening to you or a friend you know ,then it may be another cause and you should check it out. On the other hand Lithium the drug to keep a bi-polars moods level might have those effects. You need to do a google search on the problem. I don't know about intellegence, but my friend is bipolar. now when she gets angry which she has her good days and bad days, she can't remember what happened, when she again becomes normal. the doctor told her family that it was because she blacks out. He also brought up the fact that she could have a split personality. We got this checked out and it was wrong but we were glad we checked, but it was because she blacks out. This disorder won't make you intelligent but many intelligent and creative people have this disorder. As far as memory goes, it seems either medication or the disorder that could cause problems with memory. If a person gets very Manic and delusional even psychotic they aren't able to remember when they come down from this, what happened or all of what happened. If they get extremely depressed then one of the symptoms of depression can be memory disturbance. There are many variations of "bipolar" disorder. Bipolar didorder as a medical condition has no bearing on intelligence. The meds used to treat bipolar disorder can create short term memory problems and what I call "fuzzy brain" . They slow your brain function down and make it hard to do math, answer questions, etc. These are medication effects, not a result of being bipolar. If you think medication is causing problems, talk to your doctor to see if a different medication can be used. |
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