Real case: When a husband preferred his wife to be ‘a little bit mad’

Retro housewife

One day, a long time ago, when I was a young GP practising in the country, a middle-aged man brought in his wife for me to assess.

She was slim, pleasant, smiled a lot, said little and was clearly delusional. He said she had been like this for many years. I had never seen either of them before.