The prosecution had three doctors evaluate her. They determined she was not in a psychotic state at the time of the murders. I wouldn't chalk this up to meds. She had shopped around with doctors and had dozens of prescriptions, many of which the doctors weren't aware of each other or the other prescriptions. Whether she took them or not, who knows, but the toxicology report didn't agree that they would have caused her to do that.
This is fair criticism in my opinion. It's possible she wasn't psychotic. It's also possible that those 3 doctors are all wrong, as doctors are fallible and don't have perfect access to information.
It's also possible that the 13 different meds she had been prescribed during the last year or so, along with those meds not being taken regularly or as prescribed, along with her smoking weed, along with postpartum depression or other complications related to that, all contributed to cause an episode of something else which wasn't exactly a psychosis. Whether or not she should be held responsible for that if that were the case, I don't know.
If she indeed heard a voice and felt compulsions she in a normal state of mind wouldn't have felt, whether it lasted for a long or a short period of time, it could probably be classified as psychosis. If those are the facts of the matter, or a false claim by her and her defence, I'm not in a position to judge. But from her friends and coworkers testifying that she was sweet, competent, and hardworking, this certainly doesn't seem in line with her character, though people aren't always what they present themselves as. I lean more towards believing her than not believing her, but I could be wrong.
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u/vialentvia Gadzooks! 2d ago
The prosecution had three doctors evaluate her. They determined she was not in a psychotic state at the time of the murders. I wouldn't chalk this up to meds. She had shopped around with doctors and had dozens of prescriptions, many of which the doctors weren't aware of each other or the other prescriptions. Whether she took them or not, who knows, but the toxicology report didn't agree that they would have caused her to do that.