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