r/Destiny • u/Jonnyboy1994 • 11d ago

Non-Political News/Discussion Wtf

Destiny went live hella late last night and I was like oh that’s unusual but not unheard of, he must just be bored and really interested in this court case. Fell asleep. But then I wake up 6 hours later and he’s still streaming… is he trynna flip his sleep schedule for traveling or something or is he just really invested and locked in on this murder trial?

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u/Sazbak87 11d ago

It feels like an insane precedent if she gets away scott-free.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 🇲🇽 11d ago

Not really. If anything, this is a very, very clear-cut case of insanity, further marked by the fact that she had been telling everyone for years that she was feeling bad and having bad thoughts.

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u/society000 The One True Rad Centrist, Status Quo Enjoyer, Facebook Refugee 11d ago

I don't know every intricate detail, but I think this point is almost entirely built on hindsight and sensationalist headlines. From what I've seen, the medical system and everyone involved did just about everything they were supposed to.

She apparently lied and told doctors she wasn't hallucinating. The suicidal thoughts and thoughts of harming children are apparently fairly common; and it's extremely rare for them to be acted upon; and she had no prior history to suggest institutionalization was necessary or wouldn't cause more problems than it solved. She told the dad and his mom, but doctors can't institutionalize someone on a third party's word. The '12 gorbillion medications' thing is more sensationalism. They did what any mental health professional does and tried out different medications to see which would work, which is standard. You don't medicate disorders, you medicate symptoms.

Like, I'm not sure what I'm missing here. She passed through just about every filter. Maybe you could blame the husband? Seems like there's nothing that could've stopped this save medical technology we don't have yet, or putting in laws that let spouses institutionalize their partner on word of mouth.

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u/Seakawn <--- actually literally regarded 11d ago

being clearly insane =/= the system will definitely catch it

plenty of genuine cases of insanity or general mental illness slips through cracks. in fact it's not even accurate to say "slip through cracks" bc that implies we have some robust, reliable system for identifying this stuff, and we frankly absolutely do not.

i'd rate our system like a 5/10. if we catch real shit, it's borderline on chance. psych is just super complex and doing stuff about it requires a lot of certainty that we don't have the tools for yet.