119 Quotes About Schizophrenia
- Author Mark Vonnegut
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Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.
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- Author Neal Shusterman
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I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.
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- Author Masatoshi Shibayama
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Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.
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- Author Etzel Cardena
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Patients with DID or other dissociative disorders may be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenics on account of their auditory hallucinations, distrust, feelings of depersonalization, and on the MMPI (Kluft, 1987; Spiegel & Fink, 1979; Steingard & Frankel, 1985).
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- Author Colin A. Ross
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Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989), while in one series 12% and in the other 16% had received electroconvulsive therapy.
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- Author R. D. Laing
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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- Author Francesca Zappia
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I was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid.
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- Author Nic Sheff
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You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.
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- Author James A. Chu
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Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of temporal lobe epilepsy, also called complex partial seizures. In this latter disorder, there are often florid symptoms of depersonalization and realization, but most amnesia symptoms derive from difficulties with focused attention rather than forgetting previously learned information.
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