Mental disorder Quote by Michael Finkel Download Open image ““Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders;”” — Michael Finkel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mental disorder Psychology
“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 bought the… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Retrospective epidemiological studies report that 20% of the general population qualifies for a current psychiatric diagnosis and 50% for a lifetime one.4 Prospective epidemiological… — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it. — Jon Rappoport Copy Share Image
“How can this type of data be made to tell a reliable story? By subjecting it to the economist’s favorite trick: regression analysis. No,… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have… — Stephanie Labbe Copy Share Image
“As its lists of diagnoses and ‘diseases’ proliferate, the frantic efforts to distinguish ever-larger numbers of types and sub-types of mental disorder come to… — Andrew Scull Copy Share Image
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling… — Allen Frances Copy Share Image
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that “no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C., by a… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with… — 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 the Diagnostic… — Susan Cain 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 as a… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder. — Dan John Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways… — Emm Roy Copy Share Image
“The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the reference manual used by mental health professionals to diagnose psychological problems, defines the… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
The secret is to nip any mental disorder in the bud. As soon as you're not feeling yourself, reach out and get some help… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Let’s take a quick look at what a psychopath is. Although the American Psychiatric Association (APA) no longer uses this term, much of the… — Robert Kirkconnell Copy Share Image
“When you’ve had a psychotic breakdown it’s always so difficult making that decision. You meet someone new and you wonder how much you should… — Cyma Rizwaan Khan 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, rage, rejection,… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
