"Borderline Baking" by Camille Lewis

For this you will need:

• Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Fifth Edition, 2013)

1) When ready, force-feed to others, for validation. They will tell you, in no uncertain terms, that it tastes disgusting.

2) Receive an unflavoured spoonful like medicine. Find it to be as bitter as the old adage would suggest.

3) Resolve to stay away from the kitchen unsupervised. Grains of sugar coat your tongue as you sweeten every recipe with lies, hands over your hands kneading dough. There. Now isn’t that better?

It’s a funny thing, abandoning things as a borderline.

You’re meant to be terrified of it.

Camille Lewis is a writer, avid reader and Plathian from South West England who lives with borderline personality disorder. She reads for The Winnow and Bandit Fiction.