Is there any correlation between depressed persons and intelligence quotient?
DR. CASSEM: There is in one really pronounced group. That is depression and intelligence in our artists. There is an over representation of bipolar mood disorder. For instance, all of the romantic poets had major depression. So, Shelley, Keats and Byron all had the mood disorder. You find in Kay Jamison’s marvelous recent book individuals who are known to all of us: Churchill, Hemingway. Hemingway shot himself. He had bipolar disorder. For unipolar depression, it’s spread. Joe? DR. COYLE: “Bipolar disorder” is manic-depressive illness. Perhaps creativity is not just related to the depressive episodes, which is profoundly disturbing, but to the manic or hypomanic episodes, where one feels particularly energized and driven and creative. The depression may provide a certain quality to the creativity and the mania may provide the drive. Q: I’m confused about the correlation between addiction and depression. Does it go both ways? You said addiction leads to depression. Does not depression l
