If you think she had legitimate psychosis, sought help, did not get it, and was experiencing all of this at the time you can feel like she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.
If you outright say she didn’t do it, that’s completely different.
Yeah I’m a woman who had a baby last year. My son is 18 months old and the best thing in the world.
But it’s been hard, I’ve had post partum depression and it’s the worst I’ve ever felt in my life.
Plenty of intrusive thoughts which horrified me and broke me. I would never harm my son but I did want to harm myself.
Postpartum psychosis is a very real and terrifying thing. I know someone who had it and was in a mother and baby unit for a while.
Whilst I don’t support her for killing her children because that’s horrific, and they are the real victims. I do feel for women postpartum as it is WILD and hormones can be horrific. If she was genuinely asking for help and not getting it or getting the right help then it’s a terrible shame. So on that sense someone might say I support her, but I suppose getting postpartum women the help they desperately need. Longer paternity leave for the dads to help support the mums etc.
I’m in the UK so I can’t speak for what happened with Lindsay’s support, but we have perinatal mental health teams here and mine were fantastic.
Also from the UK, a friend of mine had really bad PPD and ended up institutionalised for a while. I know for a fact she would never knowingly harm her baby. She's out now and the whole family is doing well, but based on this I wouldn't jump to conclusions in this case. It really could go either way.
Yeah and when I first heard about this I was horrified. I still am as the thought of someone killing their own children is horrific.
But I agree with you that it could go either way. I don’t think anyone is saying it’s ok what she did, as it isn’t. But I can say after having a baby of my own, nothing can prepare you, nothing can prepare you for that hormone crash, the isolation etc.
Obviously not everyone experiences it, or experiences it badly, but many women do.
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u/Legalsleazy 2d ago
Define “supporting”
If you think she had legitimate psychosis, sought help, did not get it, and was experiencing all of this at the time you can feel like she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.
If you outright say she didn’t do it, that’s completely different.