Diagnosis Quotes - Page 5

• If you have a 2-year-old who is non-verbal, don't wait until you get a diagnosis at 4. The child needs one-on-one teaching with an effective teacher now. This can be a grandmother or a teacher or someone from the community. Grandmothers are especially great. There are a lot of grannies around. Go to your church for help.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

  Richard Bentall

  Philosophy, Bipolar, Kind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

  Willard Scott

  Clouds, Years, Vision

  18 Copy quote

• The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

  Boris Sidis

  Community, Recognition, Individual

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Allen Frances

  Tests, Judgment, Psychiatric

  7 Copy quote

• I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.

  Tim Gunn

  Believe, Stuff, Offers

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mother, War, Disease

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.

  Walter White

  Cancer, Insightful, News

  12 Copy quote

• The most challenging obstacle I've had to overcome was my endometriosis diagnosis. Besides the physical pain that I had to endure, I had to completely change my perspective on food. It was a huge challenge to have to change the way I'd eaten for so long.

  Tia Mowry

  Pain, Long, Perspective

  "ORIGIN SERIES: Tia Mowry On the importance of optimism, her endometriosis diagnosis, and happiness as a choice". Interview with Robert Piper,, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

  7 Copy quote

• Staying true to yourself and trusting your instincts is very important. I've learned this both through creating music, where I've always stayed focused on recording music that is true to who I am and to my fans, and through my recent health struggles, where I knew something more was going on than what I was hearing from different doctors; I had to trust myself and continue to pursue a diagnosis.

  Avril Lavigne

  Struggle, Doctors, Who I Am

  8 Copy quote

• Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis.

  Harriet Lerner

  Sex, Judging People, Merit

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 18, 2015

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

  Cote de Pablo

  Discovery, Medical, Shows

  10 Copy quote

• Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.301, Counterpoint Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

  Temple Grandin

  Doctors, Autism, Other Half

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

  Eric Topol

  Change, Real, Smartphones

  "New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.

  Charlie Kimball

  Support Systems, Challenges, Stronger

  6 Copy quote

• Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

  Charlie Kimball

  Race, Car, Support

  5 Copy quote

• "The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Insecure, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks.

  Deepak Chopra

  Loss, Serious Illness, Soul

  Source: www.sharedwisdom.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Cancer, Rivers

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• "The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Tragedy, Moments

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis.

  Andy Kindler

  Training, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Heart, Justice

  21 Copy quote