God Knows Where I Am

  • Mystery
  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • History
4/7/2016
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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.

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  • CharlesTatum

    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 a woman in the living room. An investigation reveals the woman's name, and a journal detailing her four weeks in the house subsisting on apples and water from a nearby brook. The film makers then delve into the life of this Linda Bishop, exploring her relatives, mental illness, and inability to get help before it was too late.

    With Lori Singer reading Bishop's entries from her journal, and the film maker's access to the empty house that Bishop died in (including ...

    September 16, 2020

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