In Cenchrus, the 24-year-old main character Moki Minori, and other minor characters experience nightmares, sleep paralysis, social anxiety, and a crippling generalized anxiety disorder that centers around the arrival of her strange new neighbor, Mr. Leon M. Grady. With the help of her friend and apartment mate, Ilya J. Ackermann, Moki must find out why she is connected to the stranger next door. In this piece, I aim to unsettle the readers with vivid imagery that invokes the discomfort felt by the characters as they endure unstable, unreliable and disturbing psychological states that are in no way uncommon in everyday life. I draw on my own personal familiarity with these vulnerabilities and symptoms while also doing a significant amount of research into the psychoanalysis of these disorders in order to portray them both truthfully and sensitively. In creating an unsettling atmosphere, I also intended to create an unreliable main character whose psychological state deteriorates as the story progresses as the result of a lack of sleep. Her deterioration continues to such an uncomfortable extent that will make the reader question what is and is not real. The story revolves around the horror of the commonality of these issues that are often felt by young adults. Insomnia, anxiety, and panic attacks are often disorders that go untreated. In writing about these issues I also hope to bring these issues more attention, especially in young adults, as well as capture the horror of a real life disorder that can be ignored in society.