Hopeless case...A walk through mental health and trauma
Emotionally disturbed pathological child
Passive aggressive, defiant and wild.
Electively mute, developmentally delayed
(Some obsessive-compulsive traits displayed).
Definitively anorexic, it seems to me
Or perhaps Bulimic (prognosis: two years or three).
No…schizophrenic. Is it voices you hear?
(Or else Major depression with psychosis I fear).
Plain anti-social or PTSD
(Comes with extensive psychiatric history).
An attention-seeker – best to ignore her
(Or may be a classic case of Conversion disorder).
Self-harms, phobic, suicidal career
Here are some pills, we’ll review in a year.
A hopeless case: a waste of time
What’s that? You say you like your wine?
Official diagnosis: substance dependency
(Or could be Borderline or DID).
No, I am traumatized
Originally written 2006; edited Oct, 2019