<p>^^ Yes. I have extreme denial.</p>
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<p>^^^ I’ve had that problem for years.</p>
<p>No, I do not believe there is a correlation</p>
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<p>Aww. </p>
<p>Well I mean things are confusing. I’ve adopted the view that grades don’t hold near the value that SAT’s do, in terms of reflecting a person. Arguably I’ve done this to resolve the frustration of receiving low grades (my gpa is 3.2). Because if I don’t think they have much merit, then I won’t be bothered by not succeeding. </p>
<p>But whether grades have lots of value or not, colleges and society lead us to think they do.
They practically force us to believe they do - a failing gpa will seriously inhibit your chances of success in societies’ eyes. Of course, here too success is defined by society. </p>
<p>How you rationalize your own achievement really just depends on what you value - on what you think matters and reflects you as a person. It is a subjective thing, though society might convince us otherwise (make us think there is a set of specific things that define our worth).</p>
<p>If you are not achieving what you value, you have options. You can “quit” (this might often mean bouts of depression), or you can just adjust your values. Most people opt for adjusting the values (even if they are deluding themselves in doing so), because this resolves the cognitive dissonance. Then they can still be happy with themselves, despite being tested to have a “low” IQ, or whatever qualm it is that they face. Adjusting values can be extremely difficult though, when people around you purport them to be rigid (or will look down or reject you if you change your values).</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m not sure I can help. If you are quitting or shutting down it is because you perceive to have no other recourse in those moments. Whether your perceptions can be altered to prevent those episodes, I do not know.</p>
<p>I don’t know why I shut down. Maybe it’s compensation for something, IDK.</p>
<p>^I think I do that same thing (the shutting down thing). I just don’t feel like I’m worth it (good grades, etc.) sometimes, so why bother? Is that how you feel?</p>
<p>Yet another variant of the recurrent CC thread asking posters to chime in on how intelligent they believe themselves to be.</p>
<p>^^Pretty much,esp. if I do decide to join the Peace Corps after college. Cause then, where I went to school is not even a factor.</p>
<p>^^ Ohhh they never end</p>
<p>Yeah I think shutting down is a sort of compensation. It’s a compensation for the perceived failure. When you disregard what you previously valued, then you don’t have to be a failure anymore. More what shutting down is, is a coping mechanism. A coping mechanism that helps alleviate the bad feelings by compensating for them.</p>
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<p>I don’t see how it’s asking that (but maybe that’s because I’m new here).</p>
<p>^^Exactly. That’s why I’m ranked far below what I could be. It’s cause when I fail, I fail HARD.</p>
<p>^ I was just stating what I felt and observed.</p>
<p>From looking at the posts on CC, I think a better statement would be that there is a connection between intelligence and stress, but not depression. I think the kids that post here are more angsty than depressed…I think a lot of people are quick to self-diagnose themselves with depression if they have a couple not-so-happy days.</p>
<p>That could be a much better reason.</p>
<p>Excessive and/or chronic stress can eventually lead to depression, though.</p>
<p>It’s a cycle.</p>
<p>i think this is scientifically proven by wikipedia</p>
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<p>I would agree with that. I just don’t think a connection can be drawn directly from intelligence to depression. There could be something in the middle, like stress, but there are many causes of stress that are not linked to intelligence. </p>
<p>Reading CC might lead one to believe that there is a connection between intelligence ans depression because posters here would be more likely to post about stresses that do relate to intelligence.</p>
<p>Eh. Depression is such a convoluted topic (partially at fault is the social stigma created by even merely discussing it at a greater level) that I don’t think you can make such an invariable correlation, although to some extent I would have to agree. I don’t think you’ll see any meaningful correlation between a person’s depression from stress, family/social problems, etc. and his/her intelligence. However, I do think that in general, a person who is a deeper thinker delves earlier in life into concepts that may, depending on how that person reacts, lead to depression (in particular, existentialism). The next step for that person is often figuring out how to deal with “meaning/purpose of life” dilemmas and applying a self-learned philosophy into one’s way of life, and when they’ve done that they’ve demonstrated a certain quality of intelligence, the type which I most often respect (and once again, depression does not always factor in; it just so happens that existential thoughts tend to depression fairly often).</p>
<p>The fact that I feel like a straight up fraud just makes the “depression” or “angst” worse.</p>
<p>The term for that is called the imposter syndrom. I can sympathize with you on that one too. :/</p>