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    God Knows Where I Am

    Poster of the movie God Knows Where I Am
    2016     Biography documentary    
    USA
    1h 37min

    God Knows Where I Am is the story of Linda Bishop, a well-educated New Hampshire mother who suffered from severe bipolar disorder with psychosis, who was intermittently incarcerated and homeless, inevitably being committed for three years to a state psychiatric facility. Successfully fighting her sister's protective attempts to be named her legal guardian, Linda was able to refuse treatment and medication, and eventually procured an early, unconditional release, despite the lack of post release planning. Upon her release, she wandered ten miles down the road from the hospital, broke into an abandoned farmhouse and lived off of rainwater and apples picked from a nearby orchard for the next four months, through one of the coldest winters on record. Unable to leave the house, she became its prisoner, and remained there, a prisoner of her own mind, eventually starving to death. Her body was discovered several months later and with it a diary that Linda kept documenting her journey. The diary is poignant, beautiful, funny, spiritual, and deeply disturbing. It is one of the only known instances of someone documenting their own starvation.

    Directed byJedd Wider, Todd Wider
    Company1091 Media1091 Media1091 Media

    Featuring

    Paul Appelbaum
    Joan Bishop
    Doug Bixby
    Kevin Carbone
    Wayne DiGeronimo
    James E. Duggan
    Jennie Duval
    Lora Goss
    Judith E. Kolada
    Caitlin Murtagh
    Matthew Nelson
    Stephanie Savard
    Thomas Scarlato
    Lori Singer
    Brian Smith
    E. Fuller Torrey
    Kathy White

    Video

    2:30

    Trailer

    3 years ago

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