If someone loves sweet things and constantly eats angel´s hair tartlets should this be diagnosed as having some sort of heavenly trichotillomania?

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Ana Claudia Antunes Diagnosis Eating Funny And Random Joke Mania Sweet Tartlets Trichotillomania

Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously. In addition, dissociative disorders are not alleviated by treatment directed toward an intercurrent disorder. However, because the dissociative disorders are among the few psychiatric syndromes that appear to respond favorably to appropriate treatment (Spiegel, 1993), improved accuracy in differential diagnosis is critical.

~ Marlene Steinberg

Marlene Steinberg Diagnosis Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Identity Disorder Mental Health

Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.

~ Marlene Steinberg

Marlene Steinberg Diagnosis Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Identity Disorder Mental Health

The categories used in psychiatric diagnosis are based on observation of signs and symptoms, rather than on pathological processes. One can make use of a few signs, such as facial expressions associated with depression or the flight of ideas associated with mania. But what clinicians mainly use for diagnosis are symptoms, the subject experiences reported by patients. Psychiatrists have little knowledge of the processes that lie behind these phenomena. Thus psychiatric diagnoses, with very few exceptions, are syndromes, not diseases.

~ Joel Paris

Joel Paris Diagnosis Dsm Mental Health Psychiatry

Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, “Oh, he has autism. That’s the problem”—and then he didn’t treat the GI problem.

~ Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin Diagnosis Doctors Labels Medicine

In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later, that figure had doubled. Now the number is in the thousands. Yet Dr. Bailey, considered one of the best neurologists in the country, had never heard of it. When we live in a time when the rate of misdiagnoses has shown no improvement since the 1930s, the lesson here is that it’s important to always get a second opinion.While he may be an excellent doctor in many respects, Dr. Bailey is also, in some ways, a perfect example of what is wrong with medicine. I was just a number to him (and if he saw thirty-five patients a day, as he told me, that means I was one of a very large number). He is a by-product of a defective system that forces neurologists to spend five minutes with X number of patients a day to maintain their bottom line. It’s a bad system. Dr. Bailey is not the exception to the rule. He is the rule.

~ Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan Auto Immune Diagnosis Doctor Illness Medicine Schizophrenia

Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener.

~ Marlene Steinberg

Marlene Steinberg Alter Personalities Ddnos Diagnosis Dissociative Disorder Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Identities Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative States Listening

Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]

~ Frank W. Putnam

Frank W. Putnam Diagnosis Dissociative Dissociative Identity Disorder Liar Lying Multiple Personality Disorder Pathological Lying Stigma

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

~ Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon Change Diagnosis Possibility Worlds