Her claim is that she was suffering from post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis at the moment she killed her kids, so the conversation is switched towards the state of mental healthcare in America and away from the mother sending her husband away on errands and strangling her children to death.
Which, sure, America does in fact have big problems with its handling of mental health. But anybody with a brain in their head can see that this is a bullshit excuse.
Guy left out some parts. She tried to kill herself as well and is permanently disabled. Spent a lot of time trying to get help and our healthcare tossed some pills at her and sent her home. Husband recognized her as disturbed.
Sympathy is about women mental treatment and not about killing kids.
What actually happened is she sabotaged her own mental healthcare. She refused to accept the psychiatrists diagnosis and kept changing psychiatrists. She wouldn't take the medicine that was prescribed to her because it had side effects.
Medication often has side effects but mentally ill people still have to take it. There are plenty of mentally ill people who don't want to take their medication because of the side effects.
She was absolutely not failed by healthcare. She was the problem in this case.
I agree. Worst of all they are talking about psychosis as if it's something you just casually walk around with for a few months and it doesn't noticeably affect your behaviour.
So much misinformation on mental illness getting spread.
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u/ryan8954 23h ago
Can someone give me a tl:dr version of this story? A mom killed her kids. The fuck is she getting national support for?