Reply #38: I agree [View All]

[Madam Mossfern]

My daughter was having some emotional issues starting when she was 5 years old. When she was 8 I took her to a child psychologist who gave her a battery of tests. He thought that she was suffering from too much pressure from being in a gifted and talented program (we never pushed our kids-very laid back parenting technique). So he gives her an IQ test, he wouldn't tell us her actual score, but said that she scored well over 150. What did he do then? Gave her another IQ test as he thought that for sure the first score was a fluke and that the pressures at school were way too much. She scored even higher...so, he gives her yet another test at which point my daughter said that she just filled in the circles in patterns that were 'pretty' because she realized that it didn't matter what she scored and was bored by the whole process.

It turned out that she had OCD and the psychologist at that time said that he couldn't help her. Luckily we heard about a new treatment (20 years ago)and found a psychiatrist to take her on as a patient. She improved dramatically within weeks and now is working on her doctorate in Marine Ecology. She has gained control of her OCD and has taken herself off her medication.

When her psychiatrist gave us a book to read "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing His Hands", my daughter grabbed it, took it up to her room to read and came downstairs saying "Boy! I thought I was bad....."

BTW, having a "high IQ" is greatly overrated.