God Knows Where I Am
Rachel Aviv writes about the problem of patients diagnosed with a psychotic illness who insist that they are not mentally ill.
Linda Bishop broke into a vacant farmhouse for sale, planning to stay only a few nights. But her dirty clothes would attract attention if she walked to town. "I look terrible... like a vagrant," she wrote in a notebook left by previous tenants. She would subsist on apples while "awaiting further instructions" from God.