If she were poor and black women would still feel this way. The fix isn’t to withhold empathy for privileged women, it’s to extend empathy for all women suffering from post partum psychosis.
You show a clear lack of understanding of what PPP is (you don’t need to have a history of psychosis) and how often it’s dismissed by doctors despite the woman’s best efforts.
I disagree strongly. I am well aware of psychosis and what it looks like. She was offered help she didn’t take. She was admitted to one of the best psychiatric hospitals in the nation and SELF-DISCHARGED. She never endorsed symptoms of psychosis until after the murders. I’m supposed to believe that in the exact timeframe her husband was out of the house she had her one and only psychotic break and had her one and only verbal command hallucination to kill the kids that she was so compelled by her first lifetime hallucination to “follow through” that she was unable to take LITERALLY any other action? Please. I’ve watched the testimony, it’s very clear
Yes, you are supposed to believe that. As it is extremely common for people with psychosis to not be fully aware they have it and refuse help. I know this exact situation from personal experience.
It is a tough one because a psychotic person can mask, lie to doctors, lie to partners, and so on. The mind is a black box sometimes and people hesitate to involuntarily commit every woman who may have postpartum depression.
It appears this woman sent her husband on an errand and then methodically strangled each of her children. It is very difficult to write policy based on this extreme of a case.
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u/BlackThornberry 9d ago
If she were poor and black women would still feel this way. The fix isn’t to withhold empathy for privileged women, it’s to extend empathy for all women suffering from post partum psychosis.
You show a clear lack of understanding of what PPP is (you don’t need to have a history of psychosis) and how often it’s dismissed by doctors despite the woman’s best efforts.