Prisoner Of Her Own Mind

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I just watched a very sad documentary called "God Knows Where I Am". A man in the market fpr a house had stopped to look at a nice well kept farm house on a country road. Doors were all locked so he looked in through a large bay window into the living room. There laying on the floor was a woman. She was obviously dead and had been there a long time. He called the police. The police investigation led them to find a couple of notebooks she had been using as a diary. Her name was Linda Bishop. She had a daughter who was no longer with her. She had come home from work one day saying the mafia was after her. They had packed a couple suitcases and took off. The daughter was very scared. Slowly she realized her mother had a mental illness. She would go on and off her meds which caused her to do some things which caused her to be arrest and her daughter was taken away from her. Linda spends a year in a mental institution. She refuses to take any medication. The staff doesn't know what to do with her. The judge throws out a try for a guardianship and so her sister cannot have any say in her treatment or what happens to her. Finally they decide to just let her go. They just release her. She ends up walking into the woods and comes upon this house. There is a creek nearby and some apple trees. This is what she lives on for three months. At one time she counts about 300 apples she had picked and brought into the house. In her delusional state she figures these will last her until her love, Steve, comes to get her. He has promised they would be together after Advent which was about three months away. They later found out that Steve was a man who used to bring his wife into the place where Linda was working and she had built this complete delusion about him building her a house and coming to get her. She lives in that house all that time. From early October until mid December in New Hampshire. Luckily the pilot light was still on the stove and the vent in the living room would blow warm air. After the apples were gone she began to get very weak and couldn't make it down to the creek any longer. Even going out the door for snow became too much. She had been discharged in early October and December 14th was the last entry in her diary. Death was listed on the death certificate as starvation due to mental illness.