When I was in college, 34 years ago, my IQ was above average at 122. Now, I’m sorry to say, it is probably below average. Might even be way below average. That’s the havoc that this disease and these meds play on your brain over time.
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I try to not put too much stock in IQ tests. I think, no matter how low your IQ, you can still make a difference in the world. Kind of like Forest Gump, right?
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… Gump is as Gump does Ma’m
… Just Kidding… Worst part I think is not just feeling dumber but feeling way older that what you actually are.
Actually, I feel pretty young. Even though I’m not.
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I am 43 , but feel as if most of time 100 yrs old …
I agree with @SnowTiger about not allowing an IQ test to define you. My brain has cloudy days and sunny days.
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My IQ was 124 when I was young. Not a genius, but not bad… I’d be afraid to take an IQ test now. My brain feels like it’s been chewed up and spit out.
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Some days I’d struggle to find my way out of a house with an open front door.
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I noticed something odd- my IQ on these little tests online has stayed the same for a while. I consistently score between 130 and 140- which reflects my performance in school, and vice-versa. I am careful to not become over-drugged, I stop meds the moment they have me “doped up” because I am well aware of how damaging a chemical lobotomy can be. I refuse to do SSRI’s because I do not think that serotonin is the answer to depression.
I asked my psychologist who has read my thesis and seen my performance (sort of a mentor/therapist) what my WAIS is, and he also said upper 130’s. It is nice to have options, like can become a psychologist or counselor or nurse or whatever, but it also creates CRIPPLING ANXIETY to have to choose what profession to commit to, when you can do at least three or four just by going to school and doing book learning and clinical practice after the learning is finished.
My opinion? No SSRI’s, no high doses of sedating meds. Period. Also, no hard street drugs- just weed and booze and tobacco- no freakin heroin or crack.
I tried the short version of the geniustests.com and the “next” button would not work on the test. I tried rebooting and that did not fix the problem. So, I gave up.
My IQ went from being great to average as well. Who cares? I can only do the best I can do regardless of my IQ. I admire people with high IQ’s just as I admire someone that can sing, paint or play football but it doesn’t make you a more valuable human being. We are all exactly equal regardless of IQ.
I know what ya’ll mean about your brain going numb though. I also feel like WTF is going on, I am so confused??? a lot of the time. That’s the meds and the illness. Is what it is.
I found out that according to that Mensa IQ test, my intellect is just fine. Well within normal. I’m at the 98th percentile. I thought the first figure they gave me represented my IQ. It didn’t.
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First question baffled me, and so I gave up.
What does that say about my IQ? 
“Genius is nothing more than the full completion of the idea of a man.” - Otto Weininger
I determined that the test was not smarter than me and didn’t need to take it.
“Knowledge can’t be Truth can it? It is only a means of apprehending Truth. Just as the thermometer measures the temperature of the air, but is not the air nor the temperature?”
“I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.” - Lao Tzu.
Don’t let a stupid test define your intelligence.
Einstein was another empty head. “I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book”
IQ seems to be stable over time for most people, but I think it can vary over time among schizophrenics. I wouldn’t be too concerned about it. Einstein believed that imagination is more important than IQ. Those tests don’t measure creativity, anyway.
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People that have great short term memories are often not as intelligent as they think they are. I used to wonder if rote memorization had anything to do with intelligence, but it is not measured on any of the IQ tests.