Today is the anniversary of our deceased daughter's birth. She died more than 10 years ago after suffering from mental illness for 20 years. Lynn warned me that she was separated from reality but it was when our daughter left a message on our answering machine that we could both see that she was cripplingly delusional.
I have heard that people who are floating in delusions often use their background to frame their thoughts. A chemist or lab operator might find weird things having to do with data and science. Our daughter was an art major in college and tended to think in terms of the arts. She was often convinced that she had created or composed popular works for which she was not getting royalties and credit that she "deserved".
Mental illness seems to still be a giant puzzle. We hope that improvements can be made in diagnosis and treatment.
