{"quotes":[{"text":"It has many forms, not all of which look like what you see in movies.","author":"Carya Cunningham-Sloan","tags":["diagnosis","mental-illness","ptsd","sterotypes"],"id":2071,"author_id":"Carya+Cunningham-Sloan"},{"text":"I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotional reactions, chastising myself for possible distortions and motivations. People who had known me years ago would barely recognize me now. I had become quiet and withdrawn in social settings, no longer the life of the party. After all, how could I know if my boisterous humor were spontaneous or just a borderline desire to be the center of attention? I could no longer trust any of my heart felt beliefs and opinions on politics, religion, or life. The debate queen had withered. I found myself looking at every single side of an issue unable to come to any conclusions for fear they might be tainted. My lifelong ability to be assertive had turned into a constant state of passivity.","author":"Rachel Reiland","tags":["borderline","borderline-personality-disorder","bpd","diagnosis","emotional-pain","mental-disorder","mental-illness","self-blame","self-doubt"],"id":11583,"author_id":"Rachel+Reiland"},{"text":"Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.","author":"Marlene Steinberg","tags":["diagnosis","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-health"],"id":12071,"author_id":"Marlene+Steinberg"},{"text":"...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37).","author":"Alvin Dueck","tags":["diagnosis","psychology","psychopathology"],"id":16065,"author_id":"Alvin+Dueck"},{"text":"If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then what is the value of that label in describing their symptoms, deciding their treatment, or predicting their outcome, and would it not be more useful simply to describe their problems as they actually are? And if schizophrenia does not exist in nature, then how can researchers possibly find its cause or correlates? If psychiatric research has made so little progress in recent decades, it is in large part because everyone has been barking up the wrong tree. It is not a question of getting a bigger and better scanner, but of going right back to the drawing board.What’s more, medical-type labels can be as harmful as they are hollow. By reducing rich, varied, and complex human experiences to nothing more than a mental disorder, they not only sideline and trivialize those experiences but also imply an underlying defect that then serves as a pseudo-explanation for the person’s disturbed behaviour. This demeans and disempowers the person, who is deterred from identifying and addressing the important life problems that underlie his distress.","author":"Neel Burton","tags":["diagnosis","madness","mental-disorders","mental-health","mental-illness","psychiatry","research","schizophrenia"],"id":17283,"author_id":"Neel+Burton"},{"text":"I thought the doctor's diagnosis was the first step to mending her. I know now that a diagnosis is taken in like an orphaned dog. We brought it home, unsure how to care for it, to live with it. It raised its hackles, snarled, hid in the farthest corner of the room; but it was ours, her diagnosis. The diagnosis was timid and confused, and genetically wired to strike out.","author":"Christa Parravani","tags":["borderline-personality-disorder","diagnosis","mental-illness","ptsd"],"id":27663,"author_id":"Christa+Parravani"},{"text":"THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE Before you examine the body of a patient,Be patient to learn his story.For once you learn his story,You will also come to knowHis body.Before you diagnose any sickness,Make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart.For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun,Can point to the sickness inAny one of his other parts.Before you treat a man with a condition,Know that not all cures can heal all people.For the chemistry that works on one patient,May not work for the next,Because even medicine has its ownConditions.Before asserting a prognosis on any patient,Always be objective and never subjective.For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life,But then later discovering that he will lose,Will harm him more than by telling himThat he may lose,But then he wins.THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE by Suzy Kassem.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["body","chemistry","conditions","cure","cures","death","diagnose","diagnosis","disease","doctors","examine","healthcare","heart","illness","life","lose","maxims","medical","medicine","mind","moon","patient","philosophy","physician","prescription","prognosis","remedy","science","sickness","soul","story","sun","suzy-kassem","universe","win"],"id":47668,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.","author":"Niccolò Machiavelli","tags":["diagnosis","politics","problems"],"id":89323,"author_id":"Niccol%C3%B2+Machiavelli"},{"text":"God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["diagnosis","gift","gratitude","letting-go","memories","miracles","moving-on"],"id":92635,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.","author":"Sally Graham","tags":["bias","diagnosis","discrimination","mental-disorder","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","psychology","stigma"],"id":102709,"author_id":"Sally+Graham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}