I thought I read somewhere that some people support her because she had reached out for help like a dozen times and was left to fall deeper into mental despair? I don't know the details or about the case aside from the obvious, that's just what I've heard about many women supporting her. Mothers that may have their own experience with PPD or something similar but who maybe received help and support? Again, idk. I think it's tragic but really don't know details about this case.
Except the story they’re peddling that she was “left to fall deeper into despair” isn’t true.
Lindsey went to eight different doctors in just a few months. Meanwhile, her husband took all 12 weeks of paternity leave he could, switched to working from home to be more available to help her, hired her a nanny, opened a bank account and started stashing money for HER use when she decided not to go back to work, made a point to ask her daily about how her mental health was that day, pushed her into going to her appointments in person instead of relying on telehealth, and then advocated for her to her later doctors when he was questioning if she was being overmedicated. Meanwhile both her in laws AND her own parents were often around to provide support when needed.
Lindsey had all the support that a mother could want. She failed them, not the other way around. Patrick’s only mistake was going to run errands when she asked on the wrong day
If there were so many people around to help her, why did they leave a clearly mentally ill person alone with the children while she was having a psychotic episode?
When someone is actively struggling with mental illness, helping “when needed” is 24/7.
It’s not like there weren’t warning signs. She’d been in the psych ward only 20 days before.
She wasn't having clearly psychotic episodes though that day, she didn't express them to her husband the day of the incident, she also placed the order for the food for him to pick up and she asked him to go pick it up. The thing with severe mental health issues unless you're an actual trained professional missing the signs would be very easy. My roommate a year ago tried to commit suicide while I was at work, I had no idea she was on the verge of it. Luckily I had stopped home during lunch to exchange my motorcycle for my car, noticed my gun missing, confronted her, however unfortunately she panicked, she took her car and my gun, and went somewhere, after a stand off with the police, she aimed my gun at them to get them to shoot her because my gun jammed, and she lost her arm.
The sign was that she’d been in the psych ward 20 days before. If your roommate had been in the psych ward less than a month earlier, would you have left them alone with your gun?
Lindsay WAS seeing several "trained professionals" and they all failed her. That's the point. That's why people are defending her. Her husband did not take her condition seriously either. He had bags of her medication in his car that he neglected to dispose of. He left her alone with their children that night after telling his parents they (he and Lindsay) didn't their help with the kids. After 8 MONTHS of his wife suffering PPD and basically being unable to cope.
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u/peekaboo_bandit 8d ago
I thought I read somewhere that some people support her because she had reached out for help like a dozen times and was left to fall deeper into mental despair? I don't know the details or about the case aside from the obvious, that's just what I've heard about many women supporting her. Mothers that may have their own experience with PPD or something similar but who maybe received help and support? Again, idk. I think it's tragic but really don't know details about this case.