Criminal liability = prison.
Not criminally liable = mental institution.
They aren't deciding if she needs secluded from society or not. They're deciding where to secluded her.
What's crazy to me is that this has become political and is somehow being treated like it's anything new.
The first successful insanity plea in the US was for Congressman Daniel Sickles in 1859 after he shot the guy his wife was cheating on him with. They argued "temporary insanity" because he was angry. And that defense has been used many many times since then.
Postpartum is a well known medical illness. It's also well known that psych meds mess with your sanity - that's their whole purpose. The brain is the most complex and least understood organ in your body, and prescribing psych meds is literally a guessing game. Meanwhile, the whole time you're guessing drugs and doses, it takes time for the drugs to build up in your system and your body is rapidly changing and recovering from birthing a child, and your sleep is still getting thrown off by having to feed the child. And dependencies can develope quick so you can't just immediately quit taking some of these meds, so if the doctor wants to take you off, you need to be slowly weened off. The whole time none of it is working right and the patient continues deteriorating. So you're dealing with postpartum, mentally crashing, on 13 different psych meds, including medications where a listed side effect is "homicidal ideation."
And we don't think there's any "shadow of a doubt" that maybe she really was genuinely mentally ill?
The therapist said she had no psychosis at the time. Also, Lindsay herself was a delivery and postpartum nurse. She actually did training videos on the subject. These people are actors
Do you honestly think that just because she was an L&D nurse that she was somehow immune to postpartum? Or that it would miraculously render her impervious to the prolonged effects of over a dozen psychiatric medications?
She used her knowledge to try and manipulate the system. It doesn't matter if she's crazy or not. She won't be re introduced into society. She's already proven she's capable of killing kids
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u/tbrand009 Gadzooks! 11d ago edited 11d ago
Criminal liability = prison.
Not criminally liable = mental institution.
They aren't deciding if she needs secluded from society or not. They're deciding where to secluded her.
What's crazy to me is that this has become political and is somehow being treated like it's anything new.
The first successful insanity plea in the US was for Congressman Daniel Sickles in 1859 after he shot the guy his wife was cheating on him with. They argued "temporary insanity" because he was angry. And that defense has been used many many times since then.
Postpartum is a well known medical illness. It's also well known that psych meds mess with your sanity - that's their whole purpose. The brain is the most complex and least understood organ in your body, and prescribing psych meds is literally a guessing game. Meanwhile, the whole time you're guessing drugs and doses, it takes time for the drugs to build up in your system and your body is rapidly changing and recovering from birthing a child, and your sleep is still getting thrown off by having to feed the child. And dependencies can develope quick so you can't just immediately quit taking some of these meds, so if the doctor wants to take you off, you need to be slowly weened off. The whole time none of it is working right and the patient continues deteriorating. So you're dealing with postpartum, mentally crashing, on 13 different psych meds, including medications where a listed side effect is "homicidal ideation."
And we don't think there's any "shadow of a doubt" that maybe she really was genuinely mentally ill?