L . feels that she is "coming apart at the seams", and cuts herself with a razor...
R. fills the "holes" he experiences in his mental world by focusing on the shapes on the ceiling...
A blind boy refuses to bathe, stubbornly clinging to his pungent body odor.. M.
MDevoted most of her hours to the effort to recreate a sip of wine decades ago...
N. is barricaded in a tiny room in her library...
How to understand their anxieties? How can they be helped?
