BPD, ADD, RAD

This evening I joined my friend Bunmi, and went to a presentation about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It was really interesting. It touch upon a disorder that I do not want to work for in my professional career, but it did get me thinking about what I did want to work with. I will get to that later. I went to the meeting for Bunmi, and to be there for support. In the end it turned out to be worth it, and Bunmi mentioned that there were a few topics that made her uneasy. Overall she was very glad that she had company.

While I was listening to the doctor talk, I began to think of other disorders. I am really interested in Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). This goes back to developing a therapy program that uses horses as the primary replacement for medication. Horses can be great therapy because they make you work for their affection. This goes concurrent with having to work to build relationships with other people. Good relationships do not happen over night. I hope that this can help those who struggle with RAD. Those who have been diagnosed with RAD, suffer with relationship issues because they did not have the needed intimacy from parents or guardians in their critical periods. Horses can help to rebuild the relationship building skills that are needed for all walks of life. Once a person obtains a relationship with a horse, like people, they need to work to keep it.

Similarly, horses can help with ADD. This is because, it takes a lot of focus to ride a horse, and take care of it. They can train minds to focus on one thing at a time and finish it before beginning another task. After that point, riding a horse takes a lot of coordination, which also takes a lot of brainpower. This helps with cognitive development and focus.

It is crazy that all this came into my mind while listening to a lady talk about BPD. I was listening to her, but the more she kept talking the more I really thought about what was of interest to me. I do think horses can be therapy to more than just RAD and ADD sufferers, but with my knowledge of horses, I can conclude that they would be most effective in the use within those disorders. This is all in the thought process, but is it ever too early to start thinking about things that interest you? Never, how else would I ever find anything that I was interested in if I never thought about it. This is good, I think if I get bored this summer, I am going to do some research on equine therapy.