About Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions…

— Siri Hustvedt

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it…

— Temple Grandin

In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate…

— Andy Behrman

Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment…

— Siri Hustvedt

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the…

— Barry Marshall

There is so much information on diagnostics and treatments - one person cannot possibly know everything. A good doctor is one who isn't afraid…

— Leana S. Wen

I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The…

— Ayelet Waldman

“The way the diagnosis is being made in America was not something we intended,” he said. “Kids with extreme irritability and moodiness and temper…

— Jon Ronson

I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I…

— Caroline Quentin

“Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal,” said Allen Frances. “That boundary is very populous. The most crowded boundary…

— Jon Ronson

For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate…

— Thomas R. Insel