Quotes About Diagnosis

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

Your medical tests are in. You're short fat and bald.

Don't get hooked on taking identity in illness and diagnosis, there is only a body in balance or a body out of balance. Get your body balanced.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?

(I didn't tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.)

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

A few major opportunities clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived "enemies"—his own unconsciousness projected outward. Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals.

If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived enemies - his own unconsciousness projected outwards.

If the history of humanity were the clinical case of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: ... clinically insane with a few brief lucid intervals.

Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis.

The American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as a mental illness until 1973 and remnants of that categorization remain in the contemporary diagnosis of 'gender identity disorder', particularly when applied to children.

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.