No Borderline

You're wonderfully made A seat of my obsessions Oh my brain! You're marvellously created To steer my well-being Oh my cognition! You brighten my esteem and deepen my ties With acceptance and a sense of belonging So I avoid the lure of substance It enriches my focus and nurtures my joy Through diligence and problem-solving Then I find purpose You become phobic if threatened From being indecisive to impulsive With the persistent guilt that strikes With stigma and discrimination endured And the waves of turmoil that set in Until we depersonalise our emotions It all takes off from genes and neurones From bullying, from abuse, from trauma The stimuli within our surroundings The life changes and transitions That deep-rooted fear of being judged That we find our thinking distorted Then comes a relief through substitutions To purge the grief fueling my compulsions As adjusting beliefs requires intervention The gradual exposure and habit reversal The speeches, talks, and mindfulness A lifestyle restoring my happiness With autonomy, I assure you Neither the terror, nor the storm Not the nightmare, nor the harm Neither the mania, nor the confusion Ne'er insomnia, nor delusion That'll ever leave us anxious