Hi i have a situation, im 34 yeArs Old only Chile on my mother side, my question is can someone be mentally ill And still look normal And live a normal life? The reason is because my mother worries o Believe she is sufering from. Mental illness or needs counseling, she is a christian And all she do is go to church or talk about church, she was a teacher hére in New York for 25 years she went to college had a master degree but i still think she cant be good in The héad, before she got pregnant with me she sufer from a mental break down And she was institutionalize for a few months, I don t know exactly what she had my family and her never tell ke exactly but she says that it wasn t nothing that she was good, that my family were the ones crazy for putting her in the hospital, so after you know, she get married had me, when to college got her degree and started working as a teacher, she just retired but she is acting her strange for example I m her only son and I have a daugther her granddaughter and ahe doesn t call her, take her out, but her anything for her birthday or Christmas, doesn t look for at all, and my daugther is 12 years old, but yet is not like she does it on porpuse because she is not a bad person i just feel like she is in another planet, and I live with my mother now that s why I Notice that she is just not good in the head I reall would like to find our how can I find out of she is mentally I ll or she is just the worst mother and now grandmother ever! I feel sorry for her that s why I don t hate her, I want to help her