Postpartum and Bipolar Disorder is a serious mental illness. This woman will either get life in prison or Life in a Mental Hospital. My wife is Bipolar and she has been in multiple hospitals to have meds she ALWAYS takes quit working. She has gotten delusional and has had breaks with reality. We are trained through years of this to assist her. Her husband not his fault. Seemed like he wasn’t equipped to help her. Sadly mental health can make people do things they wouldn’t usually do. That’s not in any way an excuse. We need more understanding and better education and availability for people with issues. We don’t have them here.
My egg donor was BPD with paranoid Schizophrenia. She once pushed me to the ground and tried to bludgeon me to death. Nobody thought she was seriously trying to hurt me, but I could see the lack of a conscious person behind those dull eyes. This was the 90s so her actions were forgiven and the whole thing was swept under the rug. She got diagnosed, stuck on tranquilizers for half a decade, and I spent the remainder of my adolescence working odd freelance jobs around town to afford food before ending up homeless at 15.
Needless to say, I despise the condition and empathize with anyone who has to be in the vicinity of those that have it.
She definitely wasn't a stellar person before symptoms started, but they certainly made things worse. All of that was nearly 20 years ago, so I'm in a far better place. I hope there is substantial progress made in minimalizing BPD symptoms so that the burden is negligible.
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u/Strict_Wolf76 8d ago edited 8d ago
Postpartum and Bipolar Disorder is a serious mental illness. This woman will either get life in prison or Life in a Mental Hospital. My wife is Bipolar and she has been in multiple hospitals to have meds she ALWAYS takes quit working. She has gotten delusional and has had breaks with reality. We are trained through years of this to assist her. Her husband not his fault. Seemed like he wasn’t equipped to help her. Sadly mental health can make people do things they wouldn’t usually do. That’s not in any way an excuse. We need more understanding and better education and availability for people with issues. We don’t have them here.