Does depression make you feel dumb?

[bloomingdark]

I now the question itself it's kinda dumb,sorry, i usually don't know how to put everything out on words (even if I study philology lol I am a mess) so what I mean Is, do you consider yourself smart /intelligent?, Do you think depression and mental illnesses had reduced your mental capacity?

For me I have always considered myself a really dumb person, i was just feelings and mainly, liked to read but always ending up with strange and abstract ideas that weren't nice at all,i didn't have good grades , especially in math and in sciences .
I am slow, i find it pretty difficult to memorize and have drive to learn, i don't longer feel something about being ignorant, i just feel like it, nothing else, do I wish I wasn't? , Yes but I don't actually have the energy to be someone, i have always been kind of nothing but a body and a silent person, I wish I just had a little apartment,my cat and the basic things to live, reading those cheesy love novels and writing shit that can't even be named as poems, just not having to face world at all.

 

[LastLoveLetter]

It definitely slows me down cognitively. I wouldn't consider myself dumb, but I do think of myself as very sluggish and unfocused. I often feel zoned out or like a zombie. Part of that is dissociation, another part is simply the exhaustion of having a very ill body and brain

 

[WornOutLife]

Not exactly dumb but it makes me wonder why I just can't be a normal human being.
You know, having goals such as studying, working, getting married, having children and dying as an old grey man.
Anyway, that sounds SO boring. I think I'm better off like this lol.

 

[SweetDreams500]

I'm a big dumb dumb. High school dropout. Depression does make me a bit slower

 

[nofutureghost]

being dumb makes me feel depressed

 

[BandAddict]

Yes, it slows me down tremendously. I think that, psychiatric drugs and ODing all contributed to feeling not so quick anymore. Always have this fear that I'm kinda dumb and no one will tell me the truth. Who knows.

To be honest, I think your idea of an ideal life sounds nice. Nothing's wrong with wanting things simple when everything is so fucking complicated.

 

[lofticries]

Depression makes me feel numb and dumb.

 

[BandAddict]

It definitely slows me down cognitively. I wouldn't consider myself dumb, but I do think of myself as very sluggish and unfocused. I often feel zoned out or like a zombie. Part of that is dissociation, another part is simply the exhaustion of having a very ill body and brain

I relate to a lot of this, too. Very zoned out, dissociating all the time.

 

[Bat 17]

I'm told I'm very intelligent. Well, I'm still here and have made serious mistakes in life.

Back when I was at my most depressed I couldn't really speak, let alone be clever. I also spent months not being able to read. So it definitely had an impact.

At the moment it's my medication that has a stupefying effect on me. Mornings and evenings are a bit of a fog. Have to take it though, or things would be worse!

 

[Lmd]

More like dumb makes me boring. I have low energy so my plans with people are usually "what if we stay quiet while we are in the park" or things like that. An octogenarian is more alive than me.

 

[Bat 17]

More like dumb makes me boring. I have low energy so my plans with people are usually "what if we stay quiet while we are in the park" or things like that. An octogenarian is more alive than me.

I must be an octogenarian too because that actually sounds really pleasant