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[schlake]

I had a cheesemaker go insane.  I gather she doesn't like sleeping in the dirt next to the "fine trade depot" while it is raining.

Strangely, she hasn't attacked anyone.  She just appears to be running around.

Even more strangely, I noticed a trail of clothes...

Inspecting her, her possessions are a lot of "water covering".  One for each eyeball, finger, neck, etc.

My first thought is that she went insane, stripped naked, and wet herself.

None of my other dwarves seem to have this covering, which supports my theory, but I noticed the puppy dog does.

Does water covering just mean somone naked got rained on?

And will she ever get better?

[utunnels]

Does water covering just mean somone naked got rained on?

Possible.
Or could she have just walked into a water tile?

And will she ever get better?

No. She'll die eventually.

[Larix]

Any creature who got rained upon (or got covered in water in another way) acquires water coverings. These coverings appear at the very end of the inventory listing, so it's easy to miss them when a dwarf is also wearing clothes. They also dry off rather quickly.

Insanity does _not_ imply attacking anyone. A dwarf can only go crazy once (it's terminal) and gets hit with only one type of insanity, largely determined by personality. Dwarfs prone to anger may go berserk, and that's the one where they attack anything that comes near with deadly intent. The other two types of insanity are non-aggressive: melancholia makes people try to commit suicide, "running around babbling" is what you got - dwarfs take off all their clothes and wander randomly and obliviously.

[Authority2]

The other two types of insanity

Wiki says there's four types now, with the new dwarven thoughts.

[Niddhoger]

Any creature who got rained upon (or got covered in water in another way) acquires water coverings. These coverings appear at the very end of the inventory listing, so it's easy to miss them when a dwarf is also wearing clothes. They also dry off rather quickly.

Insanity does _not_ imply attacking anyone. A dwarf can only go crazy once (it's terminal) and gets hit with only one type of insanity, largely determined by personality. Dwarfs prone to anger may go berserk, and that's the one where they attack anything that comes near with deadly intent. The other two types of insanity are non-aggressive: melancholia makes people try to commit suicide, "running around babbling" is what you got - dwarfs take off all their clothes and wander randomly and obliviously.

You missed "catatonic."  Its still harmless... the dorf just freezes up and refuses to move until they dehydrate. 

[Graknorke]

The other two types of insanity

Wiki says there's four types now, with the new dwarven thoughts.

I'm pretty sure there were always four.
Melancholy, SRM, berzerk, and ... another one.

[Magistrum]

The fourth one was added now with DF2014

[Aslandus]

They went stark raving mad, stripped naked and walked out into the rain (presumably your other dwarves decided not to go outside or stayed under a roof), only "berserk" would mean they go on a dwarf-killing rampage...

They can't be cured, but you can still watch them wander aimlessly like the mad dwarf they are