I agree. Her appearance and her behavior definitely indicate mental illness (although drug abuse is possible). We joke, but she probably need to be cared for.
Could be drug abuse. Often the mentally ill self medicate with street drugs because of lack of services. Prescribers won’t prescribe a med if there is not followup care in place. Psychiatrists for this population are rare and overworked.
When you hear of someone behaving bizarrely in some post or news article, realize that most likely it is one of our un-cared for mentally ill.
We seem to be back at the 15th and 16th century in our reaction to the mentally ill. Again they are some sort of sideshow.