I feel that my IQ has dropped under the rock bottom line after an increase of Seroquel from 600 mgs to 900 mgs by.mouth in this month.
I don’t want you to solve my problem because there is no solution to the problem. I will like to hear from fellow sufferers who have experienced the same and therefore can relate to the problem. I really don’t suffer much from positive or negative symptoms. Neither am I bothered much from side effects from my current meds. So bad cognition in many domain are the only left overs.
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Yeah i feel much much more dumb.
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irelle I feel better now that I know that you’ve hot some intellectual problems as well. As
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I think my IQ dropped more from all the ECT they gave me 20 years ago than what the meds do. But, yeah, it’s definitely gone down…
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In what ways do you think your IQ has dropped? An all round drop or just a drop in certain areas of cognition?
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Yeah I’m dumber but more content. Meds get rid of racing thoughts for me. Was too tiring thinking all the time and my mind isn’t as busy. Yeah I took a hit but can’t complain.
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I’ve got learning problems and memory problems and most of the pallette of cognitive issues. I don’t want a solution to the problem but only hear from fellow sufferes who can relate to the problem.
I think my IQ dropped with 10 points. It’s no fun but still manageable. There is more to live than being able to make quick calculations.
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So you’re quite happy to have the problem?
There is no solution to the problem because I feel well on my current meds. I guess that you pay with your intellectual capacity to feel well. Nobody likes to get stupid but that’s still better than going Lunar.
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I don’t know how it affects my IQ, but all the typical AP’s leave me brain dead. Those drugs are nothing but misery for me. They also make me feel really, really bad. They use Haldol to torture mental patients in Russia. That should tell you something.
I guess that most advices seems worthless in my case. But I’m sure of that a lot more of the users on this forum experience declining or lower IQ. To those of you who had an average intelligence prior to your first symptomes try to solve a childrens cross word and see if you are able to solve it. If you are unable to do so then you get aware of that your IQ has declined.
I take haldol and i feel excellent on it compared to how i felt on atypicals…i feel tortured on atypicals and without meds…
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I am amazed by that. I’ve never met anyone in person who liked Haldol.
At the risk of offending some strong people in this world, here is some truth as I perceive it:
IQ is only one form of intelligence.
People have been literally barred from certain jobs for having an IQ that tested too high. It is a legally established fact:
I myself, when I was on 3 to 6 mg of Invega daily, was told that if I had scored too high on what was obviously a g-factor or fluid intelligence test (essentially IQ), I would NOT have been offered the job.
So, maybe I’m glad I was sedated with lower g-factor for a while.
After my psychiatrist dialed down my dose of antipsychotics a bit, my psychologist estimated my IQ at one point below Einstein’s (essentially “off the scale,” as I officially tested at about 6 years of age), once more. My IQ was not gone. It was simply masked.
Why not let high IQ people do certain jobs? A psychologist named Gardner postulated at least 7 types of intelligence. I think I’ve experienced that having high g-factor can make it hard to understand average people. Can you see how that could be dangerous for someone tasked with enforcing laws with a gun, for example? How about technical support or customer service?
I’m glad I attempted to “grow where I was planted” at the time, and kept working toward recovery from my nervous breakdown.
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Yeah. My IQ dropped quite a bit. I feel maybe even 20 or 30 points or so.
I did an official IQ test maybe 5 years back. I refused to get the results. So sad I was, about the way I did. I feel some aspects were still a bit intact. E.g. with an associative thinking or logical reasoning test, I finished the whole test until the most difficult item. Easily. No problems. And there were aspects that were strongly hit. E.g. I struggled majorly with working memory and the tests I needed that for. I looked it up, and think I scored like someone with acquired brain damage.
The researcher said I still scored well overall, and “I had enough left”. But I did not want to see my test. 
I was grieving over the loss of my own mind/brain. And pissed at my doctors for causing that.
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I just want to say that my antipsychotics do what they are supposed to namely suppresses most of the positive symptoms and that this comes with the prize of worsening cognition I’m more than willing to pay. I’m glad that the most of you can relate to that so I feel very relieved.
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A comment from someone with a psychologist estimated IQ of 208.
Have I lived up to that? No. Not by a long,long, way.
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I don’t find any reason for slamming any antipsychotics. I don’t find any pleasures in making people who feel well on a sudden antipsychotics misserably because I had a bad experience while using it.
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Marian I’m glad that you can relate to those cognitive issue’s that strikes me as well.
I don’t know if it’s the illness or meds that’s the perpetrator or both. We must take meds for this terribly conditions as we have no other choice.
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