madwoman

These were evidently the men on horseback whom the madwoman had seen.

I loved him, I have loved him distractedly, like a madwoman, for the last six months.'

He had used the word to arrest her attention, which was wandering almost as the attention of a madwoman wanders.

Pepys condemns Nell Gwynn as unbearable in serious parts, but considers her beyond imitation as a madwoman.