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I've read somewhere that people with anxiety are more intelligent that people without it, can this be verified as real or is it just fake?

Read it somewhere, will post source if I find it.

In meantime, can this be verified as real, do really people with anxiety or anxiety disorders are more intelligent than people without anxiety?

Thanks.
gpt
This is more a symptom of intelligence than a causative relationship. Anxiety is (essentially) rooted in the issue of faulty thinking. The more processing of thought a person engages in (which is considered a direct factor of intelligence) the more likely they are to become anxious. People with high rates of thought and internal dialogue are going to have more 'what if' scenarios causing anxiety. 

However, notice this relationship is not complete nor does anxiety indicate intelligence. Anxious people are no more likely to be intelligent. But smart people are easily prone to 'overthinking' things. Think of it like the square-rectangle argument (though less accurate). Notice how not all rectangles are squares? Well, not all anxious people are smart. But, in failure to comply with this argument, not all smart people are anxious. It has more to do with emotional functioning than intelligence functioning.