Tormentum

At only 10 years old W. L. James recounts her first suicide attempt in the Ballad of Tormentum. This collection dives into the depressed, suicidal and otherwise socially compromised thoughts of a child forging her way into adulthood. With glimpses of hope, readers will gain insight into the battle of the psyche and the frantic embrace for sanity. Tormentum travels through the pain and suffering of abuse, neglect, and guilt. It fundamentally transfixing hearts and minds by submerging them into a sea of compassion. These poems answer the questions of what enables a person to take or attempt to take their own lives and the social degradation that furthers a minds fragility. Tormentum introduces "strangers to depression", an understanding of an alternate reality and those that know severe depression an illustration of the familiar.