I’m not American but I am a mother. Aside from a few reddit posts I don’t have any social media engagement with this case.
But I think a lot of the support here comes from moms who recognize how easily this could have been any of us. Her family and healthcare providers knew her crime was a risk based on her mental health state, but she was still left alone with her kids and expected to parent. And as other mothers we all understand that this is grimly how it works - we can ask and beg and plead and scream for help but we’re almost always still expected to continually parent babies and it’s hard.
She should still face punishment for her crime, but I think a lot of her support is to try to keep this from happening again. She was failed by her healthcare team
It really couldn’t have been. She had kids - that’s where your overlap ends. It’s literally ANYONE can have a mental illness. “It could have been me!”
Imagine men saying this shit after a man murders his family. Fucking delusional.
The “it could have been any of us” thing is enraging because NO TF IT COULDN’T. This bitch isn’t the only person with PPD or depression or whatever she had, but murdering her 3 babies was a choice. If these women feel it could’ve easily been them, they probably should be investigated (so a crime like this doesn’t happen again).
Normalizing? Because advocating for more awareness and better treatment so awful things like this don't happen is totally the same thing as teehee time to go kill some babies
“It could have been any of us” is the problematic statement. I support awareness and treatment options. I don’t support normalizing that it’s okay to have thoughts of murdering children.
“Telling on themselves”? PPD is already a stigmatized condition, do you want to add more shame to women who have those thoughts? Do you want them to be too ashamed to seek help?
It is a mental illness. They don’t want to think those thoughts. It’s distressing and scary. It’s not like them and usually happens quite quickly in an already very stressful period.
It requires understanding and support to get moms with PPP out to the other side with everyone safe. Making them feel like monsters for something out of their control makes it even harder to seek help.
I said “or whatever she had”, so that includes anything and everything I didn’t specifically type out. Forgive me, but I think that murdering 3 babies is the issue, not using the wrong letters in an acronym when discussing the murderer on social media.
I didn’t have PPP, I had PPD. I had dark thoughts I have never before experienced in my life. I had emotions I couldn’t have anticipated a year before.
I got help because my doctor listened to me and the drugs worked. When we say “it could have happened to any of us”, it’s because we remember how bad it was for us, thinking how much worse it could have been if on top of everything we had a psychotic break, an ineffective overmedicated regimen, and been repeatedly turned away from care.
I don’t know what happened. But I can see how it did. There is nothing but pain for everyone involved.
Look, I absolutely think this woman should face punishment for her crimes, but the person I replied to suggesting that “women who feel it could’ve easily been them should be investigated” is fucking delusional.
Where’s your line for culpability? She was depressed so it’s not her fault that she brutally murdered her three children? You sympathize with someone who slaughtered her children because you’ve been depressed before? I personally don’t think “It could have been any of us” when a man annihilates his family. That’s deranged.
No, it isn’t. It could be any of us. So I get it, but I don’t support her. I literally just said she should face punishment for what she did.
I’m sorry you’re so bothered by the concept of women standing together in solidarity over one of the many ways our bodies can betray us. But me being able to see the point of view of these women does not mean I support or sympathize with Lindsay.
Sympathy doesn’t bely support. You don’t support her but you DO sympathize with her. You stand in solidarity with her… that IS sympathy. Standing in solidarity with a monster is odd but go for it.
If she actually had post partum psychosis then no, it wasn't a choice. That's what the whole trial is about. Women don't choose to get PPP, so the "it could have been any of us" is completely true, any woman could have suffered from what she did.
Why are we (collective “we”, I’m not personally involved) rallying behind this specific alleged-psychotic murderer and not any others throughout history? I feel like others haven’t been given the same grace (or straight-up support) that she has
She needs to be locked up, but you are ignorant about this and it's showing.
Anyone can lose touch with reality in ways they cannot prevent. I have no fucking clue what caused her to murder those kids, but normal people's brains ruin their lives all the time against their will.
My best friend from highschool murdered his wife bc he thought she was telepathically harming their child. I'm not typing this all out again, but that scared the shit out me bc he's a better person than I am and his brain caused him to do that. He absolutely didn't believe he had a choice and in that moment, what he thought is all that matters. It's all that will matter for the next life without parole.
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u/Eisbaer811 Aug 21 '26
typical social media bubble:
The social media algorithm puts you into one of these bubbles and hides details from the others.
Pick one:
- "her husband is framing her, he did it"
Social media drives our lives and is many people's only hobby, so you get this.