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"perhaps mental illness is not only a disconnect between storyteller and tacit knowledge (not that anyone suggested it was) but can also arise from a malfunctioning storyteller or a malfunctioning tacit knowledge."

I do think that some (I don't claim to know much about all) metal illnesses stem from miscommunication or no communication between the storyteller and tacit knowledge. I really only have experience with anxiety and depression, so forgive me for always talking about them. With depression, one doesn't always know what's happening or why one feels the way they do, which implies a disconnect between conscious and unconscious. With anxiety, one often feels the physical symptoms before one consciously knows what's going on. This stimulates the storyteller to make up a story as to why one feels that way. I think that this story then magnifies the physical symptoms and just keeps feeding itself. 

"it seemed like her unconscious mind was trying to bubble out or escape and her conscious mind was holding it in."
That's an interesting idea about how the conscious mind must control the urges of the unconsious mind or at least try to. But it can't always control the unconscious. In the case of anxiety, if the conscious can't control unconscious, it might lead to a panic attack. Why can't the conscious completely control the unconscious?