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In the first personal plural, a psychiatric ward patient describes their day-to-day routines and thoughts while their life slowly becomes easier.

A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.

A girl cares for her mentally unwell sister. When their family therapist passes away, the girl must help her sister grieve.

Shortly before WWII, a young girl grows up on the grounds of a mental asylum where her father is Chief of Psychiatry. She experiences sexual assault at the hands of one of the patients who her father has become taken with.

A mentally-ill, suicidal man writes letters to different people about prominent memories in his life from his birth onwards—some nostalgic, some thankful, some apologetic, and some confessional.

A young boy and his mother from small-town Indiana travel to Mudlavia, a mystical natural health spa that reveals more than it heals. The boy works to make sure his mother doesn't fall into the trap of a mysterious patient.

A man who has lived in a house for recovering mental health patients for a decade grapples with the prospect of finally leaving.

A writer chronicles his history of depression and critiques society's attitudes toward the mentally ill.

A man delves into the madness of mankind by checking into an insane asylum.