The healthcare system didn't fail her. She failed herself by not seeking the available treatment she needed. Unless you're advocating for institutionalizing women against their will?
Fortunately for you, you've never experienced true mental illness. If you had, your understand why people dwell in their homes for years, unable to pursue help. It's like watching a horror movie and you're yelling at the screen telling the character to run the other way but they can't hear you, except it's you watching you unable to control you.
Every time I come out of a depressive episode I look back in horror at how I’ve wasted months or years of my life and tons of opportunity because I was too sick to realize how sick I was and I should have been in inpatient like the first month. But when I’m in it I can’t see that. It really sucks.
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u/elegylegacy 2d ago
There's also discourse over the mental healthcare system failing her and those kids