[jackflashdrive]

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Hi, I'm also interested in schizophrenics. Any experience with some highly intelligent schizophrenic patients? Or any particularly interesting conversations with them? Stuff that was out there but that you could kind-of almost relate to. Those guys like John Nash are fascinating to me. Are these types of functional/highly intelligent schizophrenics studied more? I'd think there's some value in hearing a lucid schizophrenic describe his own situation; any comments on that?

And I've read that manic bi-polar people, or, more particularly, people going through hypomania can have brilliant moments and speak well.

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I didn't see any schizophrenics that I thought were particularly intelligent, although many did make strange connections between seemingly unrelated things.

I did see a book by a schizophrenic describing his personal experiences that was highly rated. It *might* be "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Schizophrenia"

Intelligence is more often associated with bipolar disorder, particularly the manic state. At my second hospital I saw more people who were functionally mentally ill and some of the BPD patients here did seem very intelligent (e.g., one guy was a university professor in psychology).