Dissociative-identity-disorder Quote by Masatoshi Shibayama

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

— Jon Ronson

“Patients with DID or other dissociative disorders may be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenics on account of their auditory hallucinations, distrust, feelings of depersonalization, and on…

— Etzel Cardena

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

— Elyn Saks

“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

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

— R. D. Laing

“Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989), while in…

— Colin A. Ross

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

— Michaela Haze

When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic.

— Amanda Lepore

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

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

The problem is that you have a disease, but the disease is abnormal integrity, loyalty to a view of the world that the schizophrenic…

— Anonymous

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

— R. D. Laing