Diagnosing Quotes

“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people who are diagnosed with DID. Note that this is not an explicit diagnostic criterion, although such amnesia features strongly in the public view of DID, particularly in the form of the fugue-like conditions depicted in films of the condition, such as The Three Faces of Eve (1957). Typically, when one personality state, or ‘alter’, takes over from another, they have no idea what happened just before. They report having lost time, and often will have no idea where they are or how they got there. However, this is not a universal feature of DID. It happens that with certain individuals with DID, one personality state can retrieve what happened when another was in control. In other cases we have what is described as ‘co-consciousness’ where one personality state can apparently monitor what is happening when another personality state is in control and, in certain circumstances, can take over the conversation.”
― John Morton, Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves

“At the age of 49, I had given up on the medical profession correctly diagnosing me and I was only attending doctors appointments for legal documentation of health conditions that I was accurately diagnosing through internet research and experimentation.”
― Steven Magee

“When diagnosing my long term health problems, it was logical to inspect the environmental exposures that occurred at the workplaces where I saw the onset of each particular health issue.”
― Steven Magee

“Doctor: You need to stop self diagnosing yourself. Patient (quietly to self): I did that with the previous doctors and their failures are how I ended up here in a sickened state!”
― Steven Magee

“I ended up with a love hate relationship with my neurologist. I loved the fact that he was accurately diagnosing my mental health conditions, but hated that he could offer few effective solutions to the problems.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“For diagnosing and healing a mental Illness properly, you shouldn't merely check Symptoms, but rather the Calamities and Misfortunes the affected Person has experienced.”
― Sino Melo