 What affliction is the narrator most likely suffering from?
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Certainly I see things that aren't there and don't say what my voice says—but how can I prove that I don't have my health? When he began his talk with "You got your health, don't you?" Not if you believe me. For punishment, he locked me in a windowless room and told me to sit still until he came back. It wasn't so bad a punishment, except that when Dad closed the door, the light turned off and I was left there in the dark. Being four or five, I didn't know any better, so I thought Dad made it dark to add to my punishment. Because they were real, I talked about them as if they were real, and I almost earned a bunk in the home for retarded children until I got smart enough to keep the beasts to myself. My mother and father must have been glad when I was sent away to reform school after my thirteenth birthday party, the one If you believe any of this at all, you'll see why it couldn't be me who did the stealing. Some skin-and-bones character I didn't know struggled out of his seat, amening. The box was fastened to the vertical tongue-and-groove laths of the woodwork, not the wall. "This," Brother Partridge said, "is one of the most profound experiences of my life."
 paranoid schizophrenia
 multiple personality disorder  bipolar disorder  antisocial personality disorder  paranoid schizophrenia