Top 376 Psychiatric Disorders Quotes & Sayings

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric disorders are described and conceptualized in cognitive-behavioral terms. The authors then provided an unusually clear, reader-friendly description of how to assess and treat each disorder with illustrative case examples, and patient forms and handouts. It should prove very useful for clinicians or clinicians-in-training who want to learn how to conduct short-term treatment through an empirically validated approach.

Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I want to help people with pain and stomach disorders.

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are difficult issues because they can't ever be entirely psychiatric. They're inevitably political as well. I personally believe that ultimately ridding the country of a dangerous president or one who's unfit is ultimately a political matter, but that psychological professionals can contribute in valuable ways to that decision.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

I'm accused of promoting eating disorders which makes me so angry.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.

Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred

Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.

• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted.

A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital relationships. One of the most difficult aspects of identifying people with character disorders is that they tend to be unusually charming. People with these kinds of disorders tend to lie, cheat, exaggerate, and take advantage of others.

The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

I don't want to encourage eating disorders.

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.

I was doing general medicine and during residency, I moonlighted at a psychiatric hospital and became very interested in the medical care of psychiatric patients.

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

Anyone can look through my sketchbooks as long as they don't have a background in psychiatric medicine.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

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.

Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

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.

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.