I don't know from horses, so the news that "bolting" isn't the same as "running away" was news to me.

The point I understood green_knight to be making is that being run away with is, although bad, not the same thing as being bolted with. That's what I meant by the added title "Oh, it's like when I" and the discussion about analogies, and indeed what I meant in the original post.

Your experience with the runaway horse sounds horrible.