NOBODY HAS IT EASY. A single fading memory is all that remains of a life torn away. A passion holds a child through his mother's addiction. The complexity of a fractured psyche is assessed through literature. Doctors losing their way, patients losing their faith. From perspectives familiar and remarkable, these stories describe fragility of the mind, and sometimes what we do to hold it together. At times harrowing, at times tense, sometimes bizarre but always intriguing, Human Stories is a collection written by three psychiatrists who believe in the value story has to show, rather than tell, of the devastating power of the mind.