Well-educated, New Hampshire mother, Linda Bishop, was determined to stay free of the mental health system after her early release from a 3 year commitment to New Hampshire State Hospital. Instead, she became a prisoner of her own mind, a fate which she documents in one of the most evocative and chilling accounts of mental illness and of our systemic failure to protect those suffering from it.
Director: Jedd Wider, Todd Wider
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Lori Singer
Linda Bishop (voice)
Paul Appelbaum
Himself - Professor of Psychiatry
Joan Bishop
Herself - Linda's Sister
Kevin Carbone
Himself - Prospective Home Buyer
Wayne DiGeronimo
Himself - Assistant Deputy Medical Examiner
James E. Duggan
Himself - New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jennie Duval
Herself - Chief Medical Examiner
This slow burn documentary about a homeless woman with mental illness hit close to home in more than one scene. In the cold New Hampshire countryside, a man looking in the windows of a large empty farm house for sale by a distant owner makes a startling discovery- the body of…
