Top 25 Psychiatric Disorder Quotes
#1. Eccentricity is not a psychiatric disorder.
Bill Dedman
#2. There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.
Pico Iyer
#3. My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
Darynda Jones
#4. Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.
Charles W. Socarides
#5. I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.
Sean Connery
#6. Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#7. Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
American Psychiatric Association
#9. We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out.
Tyler Hamilton
#10. Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
Anonymous
#11. All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.
Lily Rabe
#13. I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.
Jon Ronson
#14. Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
#15. 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 studies double these rates and suggest that mental disorder is becoming virtually ubiquitous.5, 6 During the past
Allen Frances
#16. You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
John Green
#17. No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
Elyn R. Saks
#18. I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.
Caroline Polachek
#19. Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.
Barbara Oakley
#20. The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.
H.L. Mencken
#21. Even as a child, he said, I knew I wasn't what the others thought but not what I thought, either. I said to myself: I'm another thing, a thing hidden in the veins, it has no name and waits.
Elena Ferrante
#22. His thumb skims my cheek. "You're my goddess.
Trisha Wolfe
#23. Accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is like a religious conversion. It's an adjustment in cosmology, with all its accompanying high priests, sacred texts, and stories of religion. And I am, for better or worse, an instant convert.
Kiera Van Gelder
#24. You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.
Paul McCartney
#25. maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I
Jon Ronson
