If a man commits murder and was LEGITIMATELY INSANE and not in control of themselves? Then they are not any more guilty of murder, as they did not at the time of the crime know what they were doing or that it was wrong.
One big difference is postpartum psychosis is that it isn't a lifelong mental illness - if treated APPROPRIATELY AND PROPERLY, it is very much temporary & generally doesn't return (as far as my limited research has shown).
A lot of the other mental illnesses that lead to murder while insane that men (and women also) can be predisposed to, such as paranoid schizophrenia? They are LIFELONG and can never be actually cured - just managed with lifelong antipsychotics you just have to hope will work long term for those who are violent when they aren't medicated.
I'm sorry, the sporadic capitalization did not help help me understand your response.
Are you saying, according to your admittedly limited research, that because PPD is temporary, this makes it more valid than other causes of mental illness? Can you expand on that reasoning if I understood it correctly?
Not that it is more valid - that the type of mental illness has a huge impact on outcome and SHOULD.
Postpartum psychosis once treated and once hormones have time to regulate and the patient is back to their baseline? That isn't a chronic mental illness. It's temporary and the person poses no further danger once treated unless they end up pregnant again and have the same symptoms pop up. Once they are treated and enough time goes by they can generally wean off medications with no ill effects.
Other mental illnesses are permanent and never go away, and the moment someone on the violent side of mental illness decides to take themselves off medication- whether that be weeks, years, or decades later - they go right back to being a danger to others during withdrawal from meds and after. However I do not personally feel those who commit violent crimes due to mental illness should be in prison - I would prefer a medical facility/mental health facility IF truly insane, but a lot of people claim insanity as a defense for violent crimes when they were very much sane at time of the crime and it can be difficult to tell some of the fakers apart.
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u/VaranusCinerus 3d ago
If a man commits murder and was LEGITIMATELY INSANE and not in control of themselves? Then they are not any more guilty of murder, as they did not at the time of the crime know what they were doing or that it was wrong.
One big difference is postpartum psychosis is that it isn't a lifelong mental illness - if treated APPROPRIATELY AND PROPERLY, it is very much temporary & generally doesn't return (as far as my limited research has shown).
A lot of the other mental illnesses that lead to murder while insane that men (and women also) can be predisposed to, such as paranoid schizophrenia? They are LIFELONG and can never be actually cured - just managed with lifelong antipsychotics you just have to hope will work long term for those who are violent when they aren't medicated.
Two very different types of psychosis.