Either high or low school performance is linked with mental illness

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Interestingly, individuals with excellent school performance had an increased risk of later bipolar disorder compared with those with average performance

Individuals with the poorest grades also had a moderately increased risk of bipolar disorder

A study of Tiihonen et al. [4] examined healthy male subjects and suggested that a high score for arithmetic reasoning was associated with a more than 12-fold greater risk of later bipolar disorder.

In addition, poor performance on the visuospatial reasoning test was associated with higher risk for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychosis, respectively.

Although bipolar disorder may etiologically share a subtle neurodevelopmental deviation with schizophrenia, enhanced cognitive function can be a risk marker only for bipolar disorder.

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In high school me and my friend were both very active artists. We won many awards and even got the place as most artistic in the yearbook senior year. We both ended up going to the same art and design college. We both ended up getting psychosis the same year.

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My spatial/visuospatial ability is poor.

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Interestingly, I fit the category of high performers with poor visuospatial reasoning. The former part is why a therapist told me I’d “slipped through the cracks” of the mental health net that would’ve normally caught someone with such severe issues.

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how do they know this

are these study groups getting paid

leave us alone!

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