Over a year ago I came into contact with Virginia.  She is over 80 years old, blind with cataracts and  lived alone in a remote farm house in the Canadian countryside.  She also suffers from Schizophrenia.  Well, more like she fights it from the perspective of someone who has no awareness  that her illness has chapters in psychology textbooks or proper technical terminology to use. She deals with her own reality which is an unreality.   She knows that people think she is crazy and sometimes she was a bit shy telling me her theories because they sound delusional even to her. They are interpretations gathered from many years of her recognizing patterns while noticing causes and effects associated to seemingly benign occurrences. (…)

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