Dissociative-identity-disorder Quote by Etzel Cardena

“Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.”

— Masatoshi Shibayama

“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders…

— Paul H Blaney

“Few family members act on warning signs when they first present themselves in a schizophrenic patient. It is often quite hard to realize, in…

— Holly Schindler

“Sometimes I think I’m schizophrenic. Dissociative. Possibly a split personality. It wouldn’t be unheard of. All sorts of disorders show up in ancient family…

— Emma Chase

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

— Marlene Steinberg

“Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN,”

— Jon Ronson

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia…

— Shawn Amos

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

— R. D. Laing

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be…

— Elyn Saks

“Psychopaths don’t have bouts of delusions or hallucinations wherein they can’t distinguish reality from fantasy. They don’t suffer from paranoia and any other psychiatric…

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be…

— Carol Broad

“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?”

— Michaela Haze