Further components of Borderline Personality Disorder

To expand on Ameri's condition that we will now call BPD, we find other references to a like condition that is called Dysphoria.

Dr. Leland Heller calls this condition Broken Happiness or Biological Unhappiness.

A serious component of Ameri's condition is that of Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

All of which may arise out of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

For me, this all adds up to this -

Human's are delicate creatures. Even though our species has been in existence for millions of years, we have either failed to work out all the design kinks or our design is growing ever more faulty. For sure our systems for coping with these conditions are growing ever more faulty. The prisons are full. The mental hospital hospitals are full and the Pharmacological Giants are growing ever richer from their patent medicines.

Ameri has come unseated from her horse on several occasions. She has had trips to the emergency room on a backboard with a neck collar on. Once she was unconscious briefly and had a saline line in her arm for the ambulance trip. None of this has caused me as much anxiety as having her on the street in a cold climate with no real intention of getting help until something dread happens.