We build courts and jails to process what people do. They are much worse at understanding what is happening inside someone.

At first glance, Noor’s story looks like a criminal file: a 19-year-old woman, stalking charges, threats against a judge, a death in jail. A psychological autopsy starts earlier than the public record.

Davis Henry and D. Edward “Dana” Tatum reconstruct the months before that ending: severe mental illness, cultural stigma, isolation, psychosis, PTSD, attachment, and a justice system that kept reading symptoms as defiance.

This episode is for families, clinicians, attorneys, and anyone who has watched a psychiatric crisis get treated as a behavior problem.

In this episode:
- How schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder can change what a person believes is real
- Why depression and untreated illness get misread in court and in jail
- What happens when every system around a vulnerable person interprets symptoms as willful defiance

If you’re new, start with Episode 4: Mark — Giving It All Away.

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