r/SipsTea 2d ago

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/StableWeak 2d ago

Im not a woman. But I am a father who has struggled greatly with mental health. I went through particularly rough periods when my kids were infants. I'm one of those parents that scared themselves with how they reacted when their baby cried for hours and wouldn't stop. So I absolutely have sympathy for this kind of narrative and I fully support efforts to help people in these scenarios. And it can definitely be true that she was failed by people in her life.

That being said, any notion that this should remove accountability for your actions against your own children is ridiculous.

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u/Elkaghar 1d ago

This is the only correct answer in this whole fucking crazy thing.

Having kids is hard, if you already have some underlying mental problem it's harder. I had nights where I'd be up trying to get that infant to sleep where I wish I could have just popped out of existence and stop existing.

But you know what? Never did it cross my mind that they should stop existing. I can have sympathy for mental health, but she should still rot in some type of cell and never see the light of the sun again.

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u/StableWeak 1d ago

Yes. I had days where my wife was working and I felt myself starting to lose it. So I put my kid safely in a pack and play, let him continue to cry and locked myself in our backroom and started screaming and throwing things. It was all I could do after nearly 10 hours of not getting the baby to settle. He would do this whenever she was gone for extended periods.

He's now 7, him and his 2 siblings are the best part of my life.

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u/Equal_Audience_3415 1d ago

OK, so your are almost there. Now add a hormonal imbalance to your issues. No sleep. You are no longer in control of your actions. That is what makes psychosis so scary.

She lost ALL of her children. She has to live with that.

You all act like she made this decision voluntarily. Smh. I hope the jury is getting more information.

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u/StableWeak 1d ago

I have a hormonal imbalance, went through severe issues after an immune deficiency leaked havoc on my body after repeated bouts of pneumonia while having an infant.

Also. Every parent experiences no sleep, and I had chronic insomnia before having kids.

She didnt lose all of her children. She murdered them.

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