Anxiety and Depression - Lower IQ
Does anxiety and depression affect your IQ?
Anxiety Question:
Does anxiety and depression affect your IQ?
Mine used to be higher, I think.
Anxiety Answer:
IQ is a measurement of intelligence.
Anxiety and depression does not make you less intelligent.
However, it can affect your ability to use your intelligence as you did before.
Depression or being anxious can affect your ability to concentrate. In that way you may not be able to recall or may have difficulty recalling information stored in your brain. It's not that the information isn't there; you just have trouble finding it.
It's like saving a photo to your computer, you have to know where it is or you will have to go through a search process to find it.
Your brain can work the same way.
Anxiety and depression are not the only problems to cause this.
Lack of sleep, information overload and worry over a specific concern are just a few other things that can affect memory and concentration.
Once the depression, anxiety or whatever is gone then you will be back to "normal". Your IQ never changed, just your ability to use it.
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