Prescribed for Torment is a poetry book of 75 poems and many, many ghosts in it.

In this edition, Hassel, as usual, delivers recycled experiences turned into poetry, introducing such in a state of emotional distress and torment not seen this way from her before. And while some wonder what happens after happy endings and newfound love, Hassel tells us on a skin and mind-heart level what happens when we don't over and over again. Now the question is, what do you do with all of the ghosts?

In the three subdivisions of the book we can already foresee the general theme and downhill drive of the tormenting experiences. From nostalgic perspectives, transitions of obsessive thinking and feeling and going back to moments of loss, to innocent solitude turned into absolute, excruciating absence in times of desperation in declarations of love, lost love, loss of the self and sarcastically embracing societal low-minded conceptualizations when finally, such expositions from a young woman equals misinterpretation, and therefore, the loneliest notion that we can never authentically be known or understood, even by those who once seemed so close and once knew us.

And more interestingly, what does acceptance or a happy ending finally look like once the torment has ended?

Does it ever end?