IQ AND CREATIVITY PLAY A ROLE IN PANIC ATTACKS, OCD, DEPRESSION

I researched the suggestion of higher intelligence being a factor in panic attacks, depression, acrophobia’s, etc., and these are some of the interesting facts I found:

“There does seem to be a link between mental health, creativity and intelligence. I am a psychiatrist and have researched anxiety disorders, panic, OCD. Most who suffer from these things are extremely smart. A good movie to see sounds strange doesn't it, but the movie "The Aviator" is about a man who created planes and an airport, he suffered OCD to the extreme. Just shows you the link I believe. Doesn't matter what others say, but I am yet to meet someone with a disorder who is not highly intelligent to get to your question, I believe that overproduction of dopamine is a factor in both creativity and mental illness (drugs for schizophrenia block the dopamine receptors in the brain). I have issues with serotonin, myself, but I think the brain chemistry is very closely interstructure. The stats tell us that OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), panic attacks, depression and schizophrenia have a correlation with a high IQ.
My own opinion is that, whatever the neurophysics behind it, we geniuses just think too damn much, and that'll make anyone crazy.

Edgar Allen Poe was badly depressed, and look at the books he put out. You either love this guy or hate him. Kim Basinger, Sally Field, Patty Duke, Abraham Lincoln, Donny Osmond, to name a few have all suffered from either panic attacks, depression or other maladies related. Most people, who suffer from depression, panic attacks, etc., are usually highly intelligent people. They are extremely creative and wear their hearts on their sleeves. Often they put themselves last and thus, can burn out.

It takes guts to deal with depression but at the end, we are wiser for it and thus, we help others. Research all you like, go on the Internet, but I go to the horse's mouth! That's power and that's intelligence! Harvard has done studies to see if there was a link between mental illness and creativity. There has been a significant link. There has also been a link between high IQ and mental illness and depression.

For all of us suffering from these crippling diseases it seems we have some things in common; high Iqs, and are very creative people that wear their hearts on their sleeve.

My sister suffers from panic attacks as well, and she has a very high IQ and very creative skills.