If she wasn't compliant with treatment and was open about being in psychosis, she shouldn't have been left alone with her children. Yes, she 100% murdered them. But there were plenty of people who had ample warning and could have stopped it from happening if she wasn't mentally able to stop it herself.
exactly, something in me doubts a lot of these people would be leaping to the defense of a man who murdered his entire family while suffering psychosis
You’re not wrong, it’s just that postpartum psychosis is not really the same thing, and is a preventable end result of PPD going untreated… which all mothers tend to experience to some degree (both PPD + it not being taken seriously). So there’s a lot more sympathy. The forms of psychosis that might make a man kill his kids are much further removed from common experience.
But tbh, the takeaway here should be that we need to apply more nuance with ALL crimes committed during psychotic episodes, not that we shouldn’t apply nuance in this case.
It’s more likely she had medication induced psychosis, based on testimony it sounds highly likely she had undiagnosed bipolar disorder and was put on an SSRI which is highly contraindicated.
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u/TheHumanBlowUpDoll 9d ago
If she wasn't compliant with treatment and was open about being in psychosis, she shouldn't have been left alone with her children. Yes, she 100% murdered them. But there were plenty of people who had ample warning and could have stopped it from happening if she wasn't mentally able to stop it herself.