I think my mother is mentally ill. She saw a psychiatrist for several years. Cognitively she does not have the ability to understand. My mother never studied in school. She cheated. She has a doctorate but I don’t believe she has the ability to write a dissertation. She got someone to write it for her. She doesn’t understand statistics. She doesn’t know how to write. She cheated on her tests and assignments. She was fired every job she had because she could not do the work required of someone with a doctorate degree.