IQ and mental health

[William Flynn Wallace]

Just think about it:  IQ means a lot of adaptability to new situations and ability to generalize to new ways of dealing with problems, emotional and otherwise.  Ideas are just ways of thinking about something in the abstract.  The cognitive side cannot completely control the emotional side, but having more ideas helps a lot.  I have always climbed out of my problems by myself, with one small exception - saw a psych.  for one visit and decided that I could come up with ideas as well as he could.  IQ helps mental health - no doubt.  bill w

[Brent Allsop]

I'm a bit bipolar.  On two days that are functionally the same, I can feel very dark and depressed for one, then for the next, feel the opposite: joyfull and excited, even though there is no real significant difference. 

Another example of how important it is to distinguish between reality and knowledge of reality.

All this, also, helping me with my mental health. 

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 7:20 PM William Flynn Wallace <fooz...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just think about it:  IQ means a lot of adaptability to new situations and ability to generalize to new ways of dealing with problems, emotional and otherwise.  Ideas are just ways of thinking about something in the abstract.  The cognitive side cannot completely control the emotional side, but having more ideas helps a lot.  I have always climbed out of my problems by myself, with one small exception - saw a psych.  for one visit and decided that I could come up with ideas as well as he could.  IQ helps mental health - no doubt.  bill w

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