Are depressed people "more intelligent"

[Shar]

I think everyone suffers from some level of depression in their life severe or not. I don't think people with depression are necessarily more intelligent then someone who isn't. If anything one with depression may have more life experience than one without.

[FlyingJesus]

see that's my point, me saying "hey im going to get help for my depression and work really hard on being positive and making positive changes to my life and attitude because i dont want to be depressed anymore" imo makes me intelligent. i didn't become unintelligent by making that choice and if i did then it beats being depressed lol

lmao yes def and I don't wake up on really bad days thinking "hmm let's go solve pi", the whole thing is quite a dangerous theory and romanticising depression doesn't help anyone. It's like a subtler, more adult version of the mid-noughties emo mindset

[Stephen]

makes sense yeah but if u think people who have experienced the shitty part of life and know "more", how do u explain people who find happiness after that?

Then I wish them all the best. Happiness is the ++++ of emotion cos that's how we see it

[-:Undertaker:-]

maybe intelligence sort of makes you face the blunt reality of things where as if you're away with the fairies then less worries

[MightyMagician]

maybe intelligence sort of makes you face the blunt reality of things where as if you're away with the fairies then less worries

No trust me, that's just the realization that we live in a depressing world.

[Akeel]

not at all...