What is your Sex personality?

According to the research people with higher intelligence are 20% more probable to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 80% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, 83% more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety and 182% more probable to develop at least one mood disorder. As for physiological diseases, people with high cognitive abilities are 213% more likely to have environmental allergies, 108% more likely to have asthma, and 84% more likely to have an autoimmune disease.

In order to figure out the reason behind this, the researchers decided to work along with the field of psychoneuroimmunology. This field assesses how stress as a response to environmental factors causes a hindrance in the communication between the brain and the immune system.

And according to the study, people with high intelligence have tendencies for “intellectual overexcitabilities” and a hyper-reactivity of the central nervous system. It leads to enhanced awareness which can be utilised in creative and artistic ways and in comprehending their surroundings profoundly. But the disadvantage is that it causes poor mental health and depression. And if we look at our history, it is indeed evident in the cases of some poets, novelist and people with high verbal intelligence. And these enhanced psychological responses eventually end up affecting one’s immunity.

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