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Related I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was o... AYELET WALDMAN The SCID-D may be used to assess the nature and severity of dissociative symptoms in a variety of Ax... MARLENE STEINBERG In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period ... ANDY BEHRMAN So you might not be able to tease out the difference between a manic-depressive episode and depressi... JEFFREY HUNT And what science had revealed was this: Prior to treatment, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, d... ROBERT WHITAKER I wish we had met away from all these battles. I wish we had met in a land of peace without social c... JIHAD ELTABEY The drug seemed to be effective even in patients who had failed treatment from other immunosuppressi... JENNIFER E. THORNE Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential f... MARLENE STEINBERG Chopin suffered from melancholia -- what today would be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, ... And by th... HERSHEY FELDER Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder ... RICHARD P. KLUFT I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was barely out of my teens. Like our olive skin tone an... AJ LEE The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells fo... JON RONSON I never met my grandpa, but of course I've heard the stories from teachers and people who even playe... TYLER SMITH I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent m... MAGGIE SMITH He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I... MARK TWAIN He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I ... MARK TWAIN Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential f... MARLENE STEINBERG From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with... IRVIN D. YALOM Bipolar disorder is treated with medication, and we're gaining a lot of knowledge in this area. The ... MELISSA DELBELLO We are committed to assuring the health and safety of psychiatric patients as well as the staff that... FRAN LEWIS The mental health system is filled with survivors of prolonged, repeated childhood trauma. This is t... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN People with psychiatric disabilities can participate in their community. They can be valued citizens... JAMES MCGAUGHEY House of Sand and Fog ... I suffer from migraines and when she curled up in the bathtub... I felt he... ANDRE DUBUS I suspect that a week out (of not getting treatment after the hurricane), the preponderance of those... JACK MOORE I suspect that a week out (of not getting treatment after the hurricane), the preponderance of those... JACK MOORE When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stor... MICHAEL FOREMAN I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I d... ETHAN HAWKE I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder. DARRELL HAMMOND I finally found a doctor with a lot of patients, and he didn't have any patience to listen to me. ERMA BOMBECK The amount of people I met that had heart problems surprised me in high altitude astronomy. I had no... STEVEN MAGEE With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don... DAVID COVERDALE Because of media portrayals, clinicians may believe that dissociative identity disorder presents wit... BETHANY L. 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They either have a mental illness and a drug or a... BILL ELLIOTT What happens if the nurse-patient ratio can't be met? Would the state rather see entire units shut d... DANNY CHUN Patients with pain and mobility disorders won't have to travel to multiple clinics for their care. LYNN JOHNSON I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. TERRY RILEY Everything I know now . . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything . . . it taught me and made... RAY ALLEN What I like about this year compared to last year is that I really haven't had a lot of fluctuation ... MARK TEIXEIRA There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are sup... BERNIE SIEGEL Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical... KAY REDFIELD JAMISON When you have a doctor in the hospital, seeing 15 to 20 patients a day, that's advantageous to the p... MARTIN B. 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Being here with some people who I read about when I was younger, some... LAVELL EDWARDS A lot of patients are being treated inappropriately with the wrong therapies because they're either ... DR. GARY ONIK With a strange logic, [Rod Liddle] asserts that because ME patients deny that they have a psychiatri... TANYA MARLOW People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked a... JOHN GREEN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings l... ROMESH GUNESEKERA When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the ... BRAD PITT I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class p... V. S. NAIPAUL I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd thi... 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ANNE FADIMAN We had the biggest rush of patients between last night and this morning, with the arrival of about 5... KP KUSHWAHA There exists a gap between what patients expect with regard to end of life care and what actually ha... JACK SCHWARTZ I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. OSCAR WILDE I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND The black devil and the blue devil: that was how he’d come to think of the two opposing sides of h... GRACE CALLAWAY If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We had a department in place to handle questions and concerns from doctors, but we didn't have anyth... GARY SAMUELS I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonabl... HOWARD L. FIELDS The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I k... PATRICIA HEWITT I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I ... EDWARD RUSCHA What we have here, I think, is quite a lot of noise with respect to this matter of clinical practice... KAREN IGNAGNI The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical... ANDREW LANSLEY I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel ... ANTONIO DAMASIO They were actually going to hit on the field, but now they'll go down and hit in the cage, ... [Gene... TERRY FRANCONA As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare... DEBORAH BRAY HADDOCK Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine ... HARPER LEE I wept because i had no shoes, until i met a man who had no feet. RUTA SEPETYS I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because ... SCOTT WEILAND Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought t... ARTHUR GOLDEN There were so many highs and lows. It was a classic Eastern/Central bout. BRIAN ARCHIBALD It's no secret that there is an epidemic of chronic illness in this country, and more and more Ameri... ALICE DOMAR That was the first opportunity to sit down and do forecasting about what the specific classes the ch... LAURIE COOPER We found no consensus among physicians about what is customary or appropriate. Despite efforts to st... DR. 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