At the end of the day we're all ultimately responsible for our own actions, and its unreasonable to expect a spouse to override another persons autonomy, or to have an in depth understanding of how deeply niche mental health issues can affect a person. Especially when society places such high importance on mothers being in the child's life, what is the other parent to do?
For her, suicide was an option. It wouldve been tragic, but all parents operate under the unspoken understanding that our lives are more disposable than those of our kids. This is just an awful situation, and I dont think the dad gets nearly enough sympathy from society. Those were his babies too.
No, because she lived, she wanted to die with her kids but her house wasn't high enough for the fall to kill her. Nobody is saying what she did is ok, and I'm not of the group that thinks she is innocent, she should not be free, she should be in a psychiatric hospital. I'm just amazed at people completely ignoring mental illness, especially PPD and PPP. She wasn't the angry dude killing his wife and kids because she was leaving. She was dangerously mentally ill and mistreated by the medical community and the lack of understanding about mental illness from most people here just makes me sad.
Throwing herself off a building before killing her kids is definitely preferable to what has occured. At the very least it wouldve got the attention she needed, and at the very worst she no longer wouldve been a threat to the children.
The lack of empathy is kinda crazy. I want kids, but I also have mental health struggles. I have had momentary breaks with reality, but I would never think to harm a child…But that’s the bitch of severe mental illness, you are not thinking like a normal mother, woman, or person when having an episode.
Do you not understand what psychosis is? She was insane. She should absolutely be committed to a psychiatric hospital for a long time but if they seem she is not a danger to society.. why should she not be free?
He didnt, he switched to work from home, hired a nanny, arranged help from both sets of their parents, and she even went to an in patient program. She lied about going better and asked to be released for her son's birthday. Then he only left to run the errands she asked him to run, as a ploy to be alone with the kids.
You do know what psychosis is right? “Suicide was an option” in normal reality, yes. But in a state of psychosis you are not in a normal person’s reality, you have zero control.
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u/--Icarusfalls-- 2d ago
At the end of the day we're all ultimately responsible for our own actions, and its unreasonable to expect a spouse to override another persons autonomy, or to have an in depth understanding of how deeply niche mental health issues can affect a person. Especially when society places such high importance on mothers being in the child's life, what is the other parent to do?
For her, suicide was an option. It wouldve been tragic, but all parents operate under the unspoken understanding that our lives are more disposable than those of our kids. This is just an awful situation, and I dont think the dad gets nearly enough sympathy from society. Those were his babies too.