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.

Everything all at once in word form.

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

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

A middle-aged woman is forced to grapple with her son’s mental illness and her partner’s disinterest. While she tries to accommodate everyone else, the woman begins to lose herself.

A man recalls his time in a mental health facility, focusing on a friend who made all the patients' lives happier through his radiant positivity.

A young adult moves back in with her mother after a stint in a psychiatric hospital for acts of arson. She soon learns her mother, and her mother's affairs, haven't changed a bit, but she tries not to let her mother's poor decisions be her downfall.

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.

Debilitating, apparently incurable migraines confine a graduate student to the hospital. When one of her roommates, a strange woman with multiple personality disorder, takes an interest in her, the student's world begins to collapse.

Under the cover of secretarial work in a psychiatric unit, the protagonist records patients’ dreams in a logbook dedicated to Johnny Panic, believing themself a disciple to the omniscient master of fear and creator of all dreams. When the protagonist spends the night at the unit for unfettered access to patient records, the clinic director takes them away to a secure room for electroshock therapy.