“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“Give me a clue | Answer 18. A Family in Trouble A father is sent to jail and the mother will have… — Puzzleland Copy Share Image
“To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“Bolstering the idea that many names for autism have come and gone is the fact that in 2013 the DSM V eliminated… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“If you are an autistic synesthete, you may be held in higher esteem by some than if you do not have it.… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The killer's name was Michael Stone and he was a known psychopath. He had previous convictions. But the law stated that only… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“God healed everything in my life from a non-curable disease, bad programming from child sexual abuse, father and mother wounds, bitterness, hatred,… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
“As a single case from half a century ago, Sybil Exposed cannot tell us anything about the reliability, validity, etiology, epidemiology, or… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
“What is the scam? If you have a child who has a behavioral problem, or if your child is a slow learner,… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“ME/CFS is not synonymous with depression or other psychiatric illnesses. The belief by some that they are the same has caused much… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“For my present purpose I require a word which shall embrace both the Sub-Creative Art in itself, and a quality of strangeness… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness… — Rachel Reiland Copy Share Image
“Throughout the human life span there remains a constant two-way interaction between psychological states and the neurochemistry of the frontal lobes, a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Ableism is discrimination against people with disabilities. It is the harboring of beliefs that devalue and limit the potential of people with… — Casey "Remrov" Vormer Copy Share Image
“The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Social anxiety disorder”—which essentially means pathological shyness—is now thought to afflict nearly one in five of us. The most recent version of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
You have a choice when you are bipolar (everybody does)... either blame the world and scream out how messed up your life… — Cori Morton Copy Share Image
There are still so many unanswered questions about what causes autism and other developmental disorders on the spectrum. So it is vital… — Manny Alvarez Copy Share Image
The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something… — George Graham Copy Share Image
Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
“As in the matter of cures, treatments are usually argued against using patient's rights or civil rights as a defense. What makes… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children -… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Narcissism is a psychological term that encompasses self-love, self-absorption and self-centeredness. This is even referred to as a mental disorder where one… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was “the desire… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not… — Michael Michalko Copy Share Image
“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
![“It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day—the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life ... all working…” quote by Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/thomas-pynchon-533_human-life_it-seemed-to-him-otto-kugelblitz-obvious_467447.jpg)
![“The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children - or poor parenting or anything in their lives - causes them mental disorders. He says it's all biological and genetic and should be treated by drugs.” quote by Peter Breggin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/peter-breggin-22000_amount_the-man-hillary-clinton-introduced-at-th_697679.jpg)
![“Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the…” quote by Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cc/richard-p-kluft-44450_capricious_interestingly-the-patients-who-presented_680376.jpg)
