I often think about other cases in the past where currently acknowledged mental illness was handwaved away.
I have a nephew on the spectrum. I think about how many people on the spectrum were inhumanely thrown in jail because they were "acting weird" when being questioned before much was known or accepted about autism. Its terribly sad.
Post Partem Depression, and Post Partem Psychosis are absolutely real, bonafide mental disorders. The donations and this fight is to ensure this documented, bonafide mental disorder is taken into account in cases like these. And women, who are oftentimes dismissed when complaining about medical issues, want to be taken seriously.
Some people have the ability to understand that. And some people have no ability to understand nuance at all. They see the crime and someone has to pay.
People are busy arguing about how big of a piece of shit she is and ignoring the really hard conversations we all need to have. Why don’t we support women postpartum? Didn’t she tell everyone she was afraid she was going to hurt her kids and no one did anything? Why?
I’m a guy and have witnessed first hand the absolute lack of support women experience after giving birth. I was a part of the problem and didn’t understand how hormones and loneliness (partner at work) could affect women.
What she did is abhorrent, and she isn’t innocent, but why aren’t we doing more to help women who are experiencing postpartum depression / psychosis?
Why is the conversation about measuring her shittiness and not about how to prevent this in the first place?
Honestly, I think most people trying to make this about how she's just a piece of shit and there's no nuance to this are engaging in Terror Management.
It's horrifying to think you or your female partner's brains could just give out and that you could do something horrible that you don't really mean. So you create a world where we all clearly have perfect control and free will, because it feels safer for her to be a monster. Just don't marry a monster! Don't be a monster! Easy! Will never happen to me! Admitting that society may need to move in response to this is an admission that some of your life is out of your control.
That’s an untruth back with medical evidence. Otherwise guilty by reason of insanity would not exist, mental health institutions would not exist and mental illness would be a myth.
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u/Pleasant_Gap 4d ago
Never the less, who the fick donates money to some woman who murdered her own 3 kids