RE: Are depressed people more realistic?
February 20, 2013 at 3:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2013 at 4:02 pm by thesummerqueen.)
(February 18, 2013 at 1:51 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Statistics show that intelligent people are more likely to be depressed. This makes me feel better about my lifelong struggle with depression. Just seeing things as they are is enough to make one depressed.
When I'm happy, that's great and all, but I'm being selective about what parts of reality I allow myself to think about.
By the way I'm not sure if this is where you were going to with this, but just because there's a correlation between intelligence and depression doesn't mean there's a causal effect. There are plenty of highly intelligent people who aren't depressed.
And saying it as generally as that doesn't really identify why 'intelligent' people are depressed. Is it because they had a horrible reality check? Maybe they have high intelligence, but are having financial troubles. I know plenty of "dumb" people who have that problem too. What about intelligence (which we haven't really defined) means you won't be susceptible to ignoring the outside world?
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