The phrase "a self diagnosis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of assessing one's own health or condition without professional assistance.
Example: "After researching my symptoms online, I decided to conduct a self diagnosis before visiting the doctor."
Alternatives: "self-assessment" or "personal evaluation".
Additionally, they can serve as a self-diagnosis of one's own capabilities and opportunities.
In old age, he confessed to "academic narcissism", a self-diagnosis that hits his own fingernail on the head.
Though this has its general application, and its Shakespearean resonances, it nonetheless feels less of a universal statement, more of a self-diagnosis.
"As a 52-year-old man, there are things I haven't resolved and am trying to fathom, it's a self-diagnosis".
This is France, however, where even iPhone applications are philosophical – and before I start I have to know myself better with the help of a "self-diagnosis quiz".
Armed with a self-diagnosis and a draft of her first novel, she returned to England, hoping to publish the book and get treatment.
Tumblr, Twitter and 4chan, for example, are full of young people pledging fervent allegiance to a favorite fan culture, a political movement or a self-diagnosis, with all the rights, privileges, and rivalries that implies.
As part of that, the project team organized a self-diagnosis that awarded positive points for habits such as regular exercise and negative points for smoking or being overweight.
The objective of this study is to assess the self-direction approach of the learner by analyzing the learning goals designed from a self-diagnosis performed on the first day of classes.
WHEN a kidney stone had me writhing in pain a few months back, I did what a lot of people with medical ailments do: I headed straight to Google for help with a self-diagnosis.
