FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Poetry Collection Poems from a Borderline Heart is Out Now

Ashley Lynn Gannon’s debut collection confronts BPD, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and recovery with candor—and a fierce insistence on self-worth

Palmyra, IL – April 4, 2026 - Independent author Ashley Lynn Gannon announces the release of Poems from a Borderline Heart, a poetry collection that chronicles mental health struggle and survival through direct, emotionally immediate verse. Moving between confession, letter, and witness, the collection explores themes of misunderstanding, self-harm, eating disorder recovery, therapy, diagnosis, and the slow rebuilding of identity.

At the center of the book is a turning point Gannon describes as life-altering: receiving a correct diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder after years of confusion and misdiagnosis. Rather than presenting healing as a neat finish line, Poems from a Borderline Heart documents recovery as practice—daily tools, difficult reckonings, and the choice to remain.

“If I could go back and tell my younger self one thing,” Gannon writes, “I’d tell her that she’s worth the fight and always will be.”

The collection includes poems such as “A Girl I Once Knew,” “Dear Little Me,” “More Than A Therapist,” and “Who I Am,” each capturing a different register of lived experience—from the private rituals of coping to the public consequences of being labeled “too much.” Across the book, Gannon’s voice refuses both romanticization and shame: the poems insist on clarity, accountability, and the possibility of peace.

“Continuing forward, it is going to be different,” Gannon writes. “To go through life knowing that I am not too much.”

A Poetry Collection That Speaks to Readers Who’ve Felt Unseen

With mental health language everywhere—and often flattened into slogans—Poems from a Borderline Heart stands apart as a grounded, first-person record: intimate, unsparing, and ultimately oriented toward endurance. The book is intended for readers of confessional poetry, mental health memoir-in-verse, and anyone seeking language for what is often carried in silence.