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This woman recovered from having an IQ of 70
I recovered from an IQ of 80. My IQ is now in the normal range. I did it with good nutrition, psych meds, and daily reading, exercise, piano and meditation practices.
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I recovered from cognitive dysfunction. I still have florid positive symptoms and a few refractory negative ones. Whenever I am psychotic I lose my intelligence. Unlike most I suffer from recurring acute episodes several times a week. It correlates with when the medication is depleted in my system. During those episodes my alogia becomes more severe and I suffer from poverty of thought, or an empty head. When my head empties out I am severely cognitively impaired until my as needed medication takes effect. Then I lapse out of it within an hour or more. I would assume that, without medication in a higher concentration in my system, I am simply psychotic and profoundly cognitively impaired at all times.
So I fit into the rare group who respond dramatically to the atypical antipsychotics as well as those who find a benefit in cognition.
@Erez_Shmerling, don’t give up on recovering your cognition. Aside from the currently available medications which can have significant effects on this, there are several in the pipeline which may be approved specifically for this indication. The a7 nicotinic agonists look particularly promising.
Among the several ways you might recover is simply lapsing out of cognitive impairment with time. When I had cognitive impairment I was on this forum looking frantically for stories of those for whom this happened, and several people have felt a thawing out of the brain over time. For some, such as myself, the results of this thawing our have been dramatic.
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