Misdiagnosed Quotes

“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is inadequate recognition within mental health services of the prevalence and importance of Dissociative Disorders, sufferers of which are frequently misdiagnosed as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), or, in the cases of DID, schizophrenia.

This is to some extent understandable as some of the features of DID appear superficially to mimic those of schizophrenia and/or Borderline Personality Disorder.”
― Joan Coleman, Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable within the NHS; people's lives should be placed ahead of funding restraints and bureaucratic red tape. We need minimum standards of care and treatment agreed and implemented within the NHS to end the current nightmare of the postcode lottery—not just guidelines that can be ignored but actual regulations.”
― carol broad , Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices

“As the years passed and my High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) remained misdiagnosed, I became increasingly forgetful, confused, irritable, chronically fatigued, depressed, and constantly falling asleep during the daytime.”
― Steven Magee

“The doctors could not fix me, so I had to do it myself!”
― Steven Magee

“Many patients are misdiagnosed by the medical profession.”
― Steven Magee